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“Miracle” opioid overdose reversal drug saving lives
East Bay Times
One recent afternoon, on a dirt trail in one of Oakland’s notorious drug zones, a man who had just injected himself with heroin stopped breathing. His eyes rolled up in his head. Johnny Sielden, a fellow heroin user, grabbed an emergency overdose kit from his backpack. He filled a syringe with naloxone and plunged a long needle through a hole in the man’s jeans, straight into his thigh.