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Chris Reed doesn't recall much about slipping into a heroin overdose in 2009. What he does remember, vividly, is how he was saved from it by a medication called naloxone. "I woke up, and it was like having the wind knocked out of me for two minutes — just a totally terrifying experience," he said....

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