Naloxone won't be of much use when some enterprising thug starts bringing fentanyl into our area. People who overdose on fentanyl are usually found with the needle still in their arms and their hands still on the syringes; it kills that quickly.

Meanwhile we desperately need to get every drug addict onto Truvada, part of pre-exposure prophylaxis for HIV (PrEP). I'm hearing stories of scores of sexually active young people experimenting with herion locally becoming HIV positive. I really don't want to relive the 1980s. I lost too many wonderful friends and relatives who were stricken before they knew such a virus existed and before those of us in biomedical research could get any handle on it.