The Chicago Department of Public Health stocks Narcan in 51 libraries across the city. The initiative will expand citywide by the end of the year, CDPH Commissioner Dr. Allison Arwady said.
Shilo Jefferson, director of the Legler Regional Branch of the Chicago Public Library system, holds a box of Narcan, which can be given for an opioid overdose in an emergency situation. A number of branches in the Chicago Public Library system put the boxes out for people take. Jefferson said about 60 boxes have been given away since January.
Jefferson’s library stocks the medication in a small, open box next to first aid supplies. Kits containing two Narcan devices fill the box. People can take them without having to share information. Legler Library staff also gets training on how to use Narcan and keep some handy just in case. That preparation kicked in when a woman became nonresponsive recently before a nearby produce market. She had been sitting in a walker and was slumped over, not breathing.Jefferson said she administered two doses before paramedics arrived, and the medication resuscitated the woman before they got to the scene.
“If I knew about Narcan, she may still be here,” Smith said. “I want people to have this. I don’t want you to always have to use it, but if you need it, I want you to have access.”The program she helps lead has trained around 300library staffers in overdose prevention and distributed nearly 800 Narcan kits across the city by the end of August.
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