Two California inmates appeared to have overdosed. Others saved their lives

On Wednesday evening, deputies and staff in the facility responded to two inmates in medical distress and found the two unconscious and “suffering from possible overdoses,” a news release from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department said. But fellow inmates had already administered Naloxone — also known as Narcan — to those two people, preventing what could have been a “potential tragic outcome,” the release said. The drug, designed to reverse opioid overdoses, is sometimes called a “save shot.” The