Public Safety

Overdose Antidote Helping Deputies Save Lives

| 3:38 PM

Reading Time: 3 minutes

Since 2014, 37 people owe their lives to a San Diego Sheriff’s Department program in which deputies carry and administer a lifesaving drug to people overdosing on opioids such as heroin, morphine, or oxycodone. “Ideally, we’d like to see this type of drug carried by all the first responders throughout the county to help save […]

Health

Thankful for His Diagnosis

| 11:45 AM

Reading Time: 5 minutes

Scott Waters had hit bottom. After more than 20 years, the voices in his head took over his life – costing him several jobs and two marriages and almost his life. One County program helped him turn it all around.