Narcan made available at all Chicago public libraries
Last year, the city saw more than 1,400 opioid overdose deaths, that's the most in the city's history.
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Last year, the city saw more than 1,400 opioid overdose deaths, that's the most in the city's history.
City officials announced that Narcan, the lifesaving medicine used to reverse opioid overdoses, is now available in every public library across Chicago.
The focus is now on how settlement dollars will be used and whether they can curtail overdose deaths.
Local governments said pharmacies filled prescriptions they should have flagged as inappropriate.
"The problems that we see in Chicago are spilling over into a beautiful community like Forest Park and they don't have the resources to deal with it."
"The Narcan is available in little plastic boxes on the wall, kind of right in the lobby area of each of these places. There's a lot of Narcan, and now you can take as much as you want to. You can take you can empty out the box if you want all of them."
It provides a nasal spray that can stop an opioid overdose and even save a life.
The Illinois counties are suing the drugstore chains for helping create what they call the worst man-made epidemic in modern medical history.
In February, the three largest drug distributers and drug maker, Johnson & Johnson, agreed to pay that $26 billion settlement that claims they helped fuel the opioid epidemic across the country.
