Pharmacy signs up to provide heroin-overdose reversal drug
A third pharmacy has volunteered to carry a heroin-overdose reversal drug, weeks after Gloucester police announced they wouldn’t prosecute drug addicts who ask for help.
Walgreens is the latest pharmacy to volunteer to provide the drug Narcan, joining Conley’s Drug Store and CVS. At CVS, it will be just $20 for those without insurance.
Police Chief Leonard Campanello made news earlier this month when he announced that opiate addicts who come into the police station looking for help won’t face charges, even if they’re carrying drugs.
He called opiate addiction a disease, not a crime.
Part of Campanello’s plan is to give out Narcan to anyone who wants it. The cost will be subsidized by drug seizure money.
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