• But people who carry it are now finding that they can’t get life insurance because the insurance companies see a naloxone prescription as a sign that you’re likely to overdose on opioids.

“We want naloxone to be available to a wide group of people, people who have an opioid use disorder themselves but also [those in] their social networks and other people in a position to rescue them,” Alex Walley, a doctor who works on Massachusetts’ anti-opioids initiative, told Boston’s WBUR.

• “My biggest concern is that people will be discouraged by this from going to get a naloxone rescue kit at the pharmacy,” Walley said. “So this has been frustrating.”

WBUR found multiple people who had been denied life insurance because of a naloxone prescription, including a nurse who does not use opioids but participated in a state program that involves standing prescriptions for health care professionals to fill.

• She has stopped carrying the drug out in public until she’s able to find life insurance.