Will a new ‘Good Samaritan’ law really reduce drug overdose fatalities?

Eric Baradat/AFP via Getty Images Deaths from illegal drug use – particularly from opioid abuse – are a global problem, and New Zealand is far from immune. Roughly three New Zealanders die from accidental overdoses every week – that’s 1,295 people since 2016. Some of those lives might potentially have been saved, however, had help arrived sooner – and people were less afraid to dial 111 in a drug emergency. That’s the reasoning behind Green MP Kahurangi Carter’s “Good Samaritan” member’s bill,…