02-04-2018 22:21 via thestarphoenix.com

'They would have died,' a Saskatoon man says after a Naloxone kit helped him save two lives

When Spring Gagne got a call Monday morning, he sprang into action.
His friend — a man he calls brother — was in a Riversdale home with a second man who had overdosed on drugs. Gagne’s friend knew Gagne owned a Naloxone kit — which is equipped with medication that can temporarily block the effects of opioids such as fentanyl, morphine, heroin, methadone and oxycodone — and implored him to hurry.
Gagne, who is 20 years old, said he arrived at the house before 8 a.m.
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