Healthcare/Hospital Law
Jan. 18, 2008
Teaching Junkies to Save Each Other's Lives
Susan Partovi, left, Homeless Health Care Los Angeles’ primary physician, and Mark Casanova, the Skid Row clinic’s executive director, stand in front of the needle exchange office, where they have begun training heroin addicts to administer shots of Narcan, a drug that counteracts opiates in order to save lives. But funds for the program are limited.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
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LOS ANGELES - The heroin felt smooth to Scott Tillisch, but he could see that the stranger next to him was struggling. Crouched in a dark alleyway, Tillisch recognized the overdose by reading symptoms the way he was taught in a training class for Skid Row addicts.
But when he reached for the pocket-sized o...
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