“They might look blue or grey around their lips, ears and fingernails from the lack of oxygen. People will look dead.”

Much of Heather Hobbs’s job as a harm-reduction co-ordinator involves showing people how to inject the opioid inhibitor naloxone to reverse the effects of drug overdoses. This year alone she has trained nearly 800 people — illicit-drug users and their parents, shelter staff and support workers — to administer naloxone and has given out 843 kits.  Read the rest of this article at Victoria Times-Colonist…