1.0 link 83353 <![CDATA[Killing in the name of public health]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mark-kleiman/killing-in-the-name-of-pu_b_83353.html The Office of National Drug Control Policy prefers dead heroin addicts to living heroin addicts. At least, it's hard to put any other interpretation on this story:

Public health workers from New York to Los Angeles, North Carolina to New Mexico, are preventing thousands of deaths by giving $9.50 rescue kits to drug users. The kits turn drug users into first responders by giving them the tools to save a life.

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The nasal spray is a drug called naloxone, or Narcan....

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