‘Hope Box’ offers kits to save lives

  • Press photo/Thomas Sherrill - Stephanie Almeida, founder and executive director of the Smoky Mountain Harm Reduction (right) and Lisa Hartman, mother of Brian Dills, speak during a May 6 press conference in downtown Franklin.
    Press photo/Thomas Sherrill - Stephanie Almeida, founder and executive director of the Smoky Mountain Harm Reduction (right) and Lisa Hartman, mother of Brian Dills, speak during a May 6 press conference in downtown Franklin.
A local nonprofit used a statewide release of a report asking for expanded Good Samaritan law protections regarding drug use to place a “Hope Box” full of Narcan/naloxone kits at the site of an April…

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