CityLab Daily: Public Transit Joins the Opioid Fight
Also today: How mayors avoid burnout, and an underground lunch delivery train comes to the Atlanta suburbs.
At some transit stations in the Boston region, the opioid overdose reversal drug Narcan will soon be available.
Photographer: Jonathan Wiggs/The Boston Globe via Getty Images
When Sheila Haennicke's son overdosed on a Blue Line train in Chicago, the only thing that might have saved his life is naloxone, an emergency opioid overdose reversal treatment commonly distributed as Narcan. In the wake of her son's death, Haennicke became part of a growing movement across the US to make the nasal spray available near public transit.
Some transit systems are starting programs to make the drug available, but advocates told me that continued stigma around drug use and red tape has made administering these initiatives challenging. Today on CityLab: Public Transit Agencies Join the Fight to Curb Overdose Deaths