Garfield Park resident Larry Hills initially panicked when his wife overdosed from heroin. But then he remember his training.
“I was prepared to respond to that moment,” he said. “God trained me for that moment.”
This past March, Hills was trained to recognize and respond to opioid overdoses as part of an initiative to combat opioid addiction in some of Chicago’s hardest hit areas. He credits that training with saving his wife’s life that day in May.