Kahl Clark, EMS coordinator for the Butte-Silver Bow Fire Department, places a small bottle of naloxone to the synthetic nose of an anatomically correct mannequin, presses a plunger and explains that this is how you can stop a person from overdosing on opioids.
The Tuesday afternoon demonstration was not the first one Clark has given. He has performed it countless times as he has trained nearly every firefighter, law enforcement officer and detention center employee in Butte-Silver Bow about how to properly administer the nasal-spray form of naloxone, a prescription drug that blocks opioid receptors in the brain and can be life-saving if administered in time.
For the past couple of weeks, Clark says, all county fire trucks have been equipped with naloxone.