{"id":59755,"date":"2017-05-09T17:15:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T21:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59755"},"modified":"2017-05-09T18:50:42","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T22:50:42","slug":"nyt-cambridge-mass-might-place-lockboxes-on-street-corners-2-give-the-public-easy-access-to-narcan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59755","title":{"rendered":"(NYT) Cambridge, Mass might place lockboxes on street corners 2 give the public easy access to Narcan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> Across the country, someone dies of an opioid overdose every 24 minutes. In Massachusetts, the death toll is five people a day.<\/p>\n<p>In the face of this epidemic, Cambridge could become the first city to take a step that until recently might have seemed unthinkable: It might place lockboxes on street corners to give the public easy access to Narcan, the brand name for naloxone, a medication that can rapidly revive people who have overdosed.<\/p>\n<p>The idea is in its earliest stages, and any concrete plan for the city, and residents, to consider seems at least a year away. But several days ago, the city police and area doctors who support the boxes conducted an experiment here, asking people who walked by if they would help a stranger who had overdosed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/05\/09\/us\/opioids-narcan-drug-overdose-heroin-fentanyl.html?smid=tw-share&#038;_r=0\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Across the country, someone dies of an opioid overdose every 24 minutes. In Massachusetts, the death toll is five people a day. In the face of this epidemic, Cambridge could become the first city to take a step that until<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=59755\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,615,99,104,151],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-59755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americau-s-a","category-city-government","category-drugsdrug-addiction","category-health-medicine","category-politics-in-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=59755"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59757,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59755\/revisions\/59757"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=59755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=59755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=59755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}