Rep. Kate Donaghue has a trick for always ensuring naloxone is on hand and ready to deploy if she encounters someone experiencing an opioid overdose: she keeps a dose tucked into the laminated pouch holding her State House ID.
Donaghue, whose son, Brian, died in 2018 to an overdose, on Tuesday hosted dozens of her colleagues, administration officials, public health workers and others for a training session about how and when to use naloxone.
Attendees piled into the State House’s Great Hall, where one table was filled with pre-packaged Narcan kits, to learn more about the opioid epidemic and the role that the overdose-reversal drug plays in keeping people alive…