Sandy Snodgrass became an advocate for Narcan after her son Bruce died of fentanyl poisoning in Anchorage last year. She wants Anchorage police to start carrying the overdose reversal drug. Now, the department says it's considering it.
Snodgrass became an advocate for Narcan after her 22-year-old son Bruce died of fentanyl poisoning in Anchorage last October. She said she’s shocked that Anchorage police aren’t required to carry the overdose reversing drug. She spent four hours Tuesday handing out Narcan kits to people in front of the police department’s downtown headquarters, as part of a rally she planned to demand the department change its policy.
Sandy Snodgrass is an advocate asking for Anchorage Police to carry Narcan with them to combat fentanyl overdoses. “It’s an opiate antagonist,” Troster said. “So unless you have opiates in your system, the way it was described to me, it would be like shooting water mist up your nose.”“Alaska is pretty much the same as the rest of the country,” he said. “Most of them have it, but there are places everywhere that don’t.”in Southeast were trained to use it, too.
“Everyone’s coming out of the woodwork to give free Narcan right now. Once that’s over, Narcan is like, $37.50 a dose, and we need to come up with a funding source,” Kerle said at the public safety meeting. “It’s going to be expensive, and the majority of that’s going to get thrown away because we’re not going to use it.”
Outside of Anchorage police headquarters, roughly 20 people joined Snodgrass in her protest, waving signs with messages like, “Reverse an overdose, save a life” and “Why won’t APD carry Narcan?”
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