The Real First Responders to Drug Overdoses Are Other Users

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A Glide volunteer holds a vial of Naloxone. Photo by Marylee Williams/KALW/Crosscurrents

By Marylee Williams, KALW/Crosscurrents

A line is forming outside Glide Church in San Francisco’s Tenderloin district. People are waiting to get dinner or to get sent to another shelter for the night. But that’s not what Jana Lee* is here for.

It’s also syringe access night here at Glide, and Lee is getting a prescription refill. Glide volunteer Kevin Smith asks for her name, jotting it down in a binder.

Note: We’ve changed one of the names* in this story due to the sensitive subject.

Read the complete story at KALW/Crosscurrents.

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