Rochester’s Regional Transit Service has begun training its employees in a potentially lifesaving response to opioid overdoses.
Transit service workers are learning how to administer naloxone, often sold under the brand name Narcan, which can reverse an overdose.
The agency’s public information officer, Tom Brede, said it’s a reflection of how the opioid epidemic has become a “community crisis.”
“We’re not the emergency medical response,” Brede said, “but we do have a role.”