Librarians and bin workers could be given training in how to use potentially life-saving drug overdose antidote in a Scots city. Councillors in Aberdeen have approved the project to give more council workers training in using naloxone amid surging drug deaths across the country.

A NaloxBox is a hard acrylic box mounted to an exterior wall with 24/7 access to naloxone. Kimberly Buck is a Narcan distributor for Overdose Lifeline, an Indiana nonprofit dedicated to helping individuals, families and communities affected by substance use disorder. She has been with the nonprofit since 2014 and was tasked with deciding where Jackson County’s two boxes would go and installing them as she receives them.

For new members of 12-step programs like Alcoholics Anonymous and Narcotics Anonymous, naloxone can still seem like a symbol of drug use, according to new research. This can cause some people looking to kick drugs through these large abstinence-based fellowships to decline to carry the overdose-reversal drug, seeing it as a relic of a past life.