Robert Childs and Leilani Attilo of the N.C. Harm Reduction Coalition discuss the coalition’s proposals for fighting drug overdose deaths in North Carolina: a 911 Good Samaritan Law and increased access to the overdose-fighting drug naloxone. Childs and Attilo offered these comments during a Jan. 28, 2013, speech for the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society. To watch full-length presentations of JLF events, click here.
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