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Groton Daily Independent
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a mine on Baf n Island that’s expected to operate for decades to come.
On July 26, 1845, an expedition to nd the Northwest Passage led by British explorer John Franklin was
last sighted off Baf n Island. The expedition never made it. Trapped by sea ice, Franklin and his men per- ished from cold, illness and starvation. Their two ships were found in 2014 and 2016, not far from where Nordica sighted its rst polar bear.
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Follow the team of AP journalists who traveled through the Arctic Circle’s fabled Northwest Passage. You can nd their posts here: https://www.apnews.com/tag/NewArctic
Chicago giving departing inmates overdose-reversing drug By DON BABWIN, Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) — Chicago now gives at-risk inmates the overdose-reversing drug naloxone upon their release from jail and Los Angeles is poised to follow suit, putting the antidote in as many hands as possible as part of a multi- faceted approach to combatting the nation’s opioid epidemic.
The Cook County Jail in Chicago, which is the largest single-site jail in the country, has trained about 900 inmates how to use naloxone nasal spray devices since last summer and has distributed 400 of them to at-risk men and women as they got out. The devices can undo the effects of an opi- ate overdose almost immediately and are identical to those used by of cers in many of the country’s law enforce- ment agencies.
SheriffTomDart,whoseof ceruns thejail,saidaddictsaremostat-risk offatallyoverdosinginthetwoweeks aftergettingoutbecauseoftheirtime away from drugs while locked up.
“We’ve got to keep them alive (and) treatment, get off drugs,” he said.
In this June 14, 2017, photo, Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart shows Naloxone, an overdose-reveal nasal spray drug atthesheriff’sof ceinCookCountyJail,thelargestsingle sitejailintheUnitedStates,hasjoinedthegrowingnum- berofjailstohandtoinmatesontheirwayoutthedoor kitscontainingnaloxone.(APPhoto/G-JunYam)
if we can get them through that two-week window, they might get
Dr. Connie Mennella, the chair of Correctional Health for the county’s health and hospitals system, which administers the program, said only inmates are being trained to use naloxone, but that she eventually hopes their relatives and friends can also be trained.
“We are trying to saturate this community with this drug and we are educating them to tell their buddy, mother, father how to use it, where they keep it and, ‘If you come home and see me not responding, to go get it and use it,’” she said.
Proponents say such jail programs can be the difference between a former inmate living and dying, as the naloxone often can be administered by an overdosing addict, a friend or family member before emer- gency responders can reach them.
And Dr. Arastou Aminzadeh, the correctional health-medical director for the Los Angeles County Depart- ment of Health Services, said the kits are particularly important for just-released inmates because the