Drug to reverse overdoses available for free in 12 SC counties for national Save a Life Day

A sticker sits in a box of naloxone, T-shirts and other items to give out during Save a Life Day. (Photo courtesy of Kyra Kearse)

When Kyra Kearse first visited a pharmacy to pick up free boxes of the overdose reversal drug naloxone, she had a flashback to herself five years earlier, when she was buying drugs and living on the street.

“How many do you want?” the pharmacist asked her in December about naloxone, often known by the name brand Narcan…

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