The Minneapolis Fire department is adding a third Narcan vending machine at Station 5, one of the top stations responding to the highest number of overdose calls in the city. The previous two locations have distributed more than 6,000 doses of NARCAN since the initiative began last year.
The move is welcomed by a mother who lost her son five years ago.
“Tyler was in recovery from opioid addiction,” explains Michelle Hein who shared the story of her son’s death as a way to help prevent it from happening to anyone else…