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Heroine of Heroin Mails Narcan to Reduce Opioid Overdoses | NBC Left Field
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6:02Now PlayingTracey Helton Mitchell, a former heroin addict, mails care packages with opioid-overdose antidote naloxone (also known as Narcan), Fentanyl testing strips, and clean needles to those looking for help on the opiates subreddit she moderates. From her home outside San Francisco, Mitchell says she has saved more than 300 people from opioid overdoses. President Trump's surgeon general recommends the widespread distribution of naloxone due to the opioid crisis in America, but the price of the drug and access to it makes it prohibitive for many.
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