Mother-of-three and former drug addict Tracey Helton is illegally mailing naloxone, which reverses the symptoms of an opioid overdose, to drug addicts in a desperate attempt to save lives.
Helton, 47, sends the medication to about 10 people a week who reach out to her and tell her they have a drug problem.
The addicts admit to her that they are hooked on potentially-fatal drugs and that they could benefit from the lifesaving medication – which is hard to come by in rural parts of the US.
Helton does not disclose the specifics of her job, saying only that she works in substance abuse prevention, nor how she obtains the naloxone.
But countless ‘clients’ have credited her with saving their lives, claiming that without the naloxone she gave them they would have died from an overdose.