Forfeiture Funds to be Used for Overdose Prevention

A package of bills introduced in to the Wisconsin state legislature designed to battle opiate use includes a provision allowing police officers to administer the drug Narcan and law enforcement in one county is using asset forfeiture money to purchase the drug. Narcan, aka naloxone, is used to reverse the effects of opiate overdose and has been credited with saving more than 10,000 lives since 1996. The Racine County Sheriff's department will be training its deputies to use the drug and will purchase doses using cash from the department's asset forfeiture fund.