SAN ANTONIO – The San Antonio Police Department joined the Opioid Prevention Task Force a year ago, with the mission to be proactive and evolve as a department that helps save lives and prevents opioid overdose deaths.
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SAPD is one of the first departments to equip officers with a lifesaving drug known as naloxone, a nasal spray that reverses the effects of an overdose.
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Eighty percent of SAPD officers will be trained and equipped with naloxone by the end of September.
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The entire Police Department will be trained by the end of 2018.
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The Police Department is also doing its part to train neighboring law enforcement agencies, constables and campus police at several schools.
What Police Chief William McManus is saying:
"It's a problem everywhere in the country. San Antonio in no exception. At any moment, an officer could come across someone's who's (overdosed) on opioids."