The COP program will roll out across New York state with the distribution of 25,000 kits across 150 police forces.
Authorities said naloxone was credited with saving the lives of 563 people in the Long Island county of Suffolk alone last year.
A similar scheme to the New York state initiative was launched in the Massachusetts town of Quincy in 2010. Since its inception, police say naloxone has helped reverse 211 overdoses, a success rate of 95 percent.
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