Access to overdose preventative still bogged down in barriers

Scores of people have died in Alaska from heroin and other opioid overdose deaths this year that the drug naloxone, also known as Narcan, could have prevented.
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(Creative Commons photo by Punching Judy)Governor Bill Walker signed a law six months ago to ease access to the life-saving drug, and the bill’s advocates are frustrated the regulatory barriers the law was supposed to knock down are still up. The new rules are more than a month away.
Senate Bill 23 sponsor Johnny Ellis, a