Letter: Opioid overdose kits can save lives

People are dying unnecessarily. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, there were 47,600 opiate-related deaths in the United States in 2017. This number has skyrocketed over 257 percent in 10 years. This is an epidemic.The drug-related death tolls continue to climb, and they can be stopped. There is a way to save lives. There is a medicine that can be easily administered to a person who is overdosing that will reverse the killer effects of the narcotic.Anyone can get this life-saving