There have been more than 480 deployments of the heroin antidote naloxone countywide in the last seven months, Camden County officials said on Monday. 

It was seven month ago that the Freeholder Board, Camden County Chief's Association and healthcare providers came together to assemble a plan to provide police officers throughout the county with the antidote, which is used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose and prevent the victim from dying.

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