介绍： Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a stunning statistic. Seventy-two thousand people, it estimates, died of drug overdoses in 2017. The huge increase in deaths is largely due to heroin and powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl.

One of the tools being used to fight t...

介绍： Earlier this year, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a stunning statistic. Seventy-two thousand people, it estimates, died of drug overdoses in 2017. The huge increase in deaths is largely due to heroin and powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl.

One of the tools being used to fight that wave of deaths is the drug naloxone. It's been called the Lazarus drug for its ability to revive people dying from overdoses. It can be injected or simply administered through a nasal spray. (The spray form of the drug is known by the brand name Narcan.)

Twenty-four-year-old Tiffany — whose last name is being withheld to protect her privacy — owes her life to naloxone.

"I've overdosed nine times," she says.

Each time she overdosed, Tiffany was revived with naloxone.

Another heroin user, James, says he has also been brought back with naloxone, and that he's used the drug on friends who "fall out," or lose consciousness.

"I've got five or six nasal spray Narcans up in my room, so if someone else falls out around me, when you shoot it up their nose, not even ten, fifteen seconds later, they are back," he says.