A naloxone kit in 2017. The medication is used for the emergency treatment of known or suspected opioid overdose. (New Brunswick/Nouveau-Brunswick via Bay City News)

Santa Clara County will begin providing the opioid overdose-reversing medicine naloxone in all county library branches in an effort to make the treatment more widely available.

The county Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday to make naloxone, commonly known as Narcan, available at all county libraries and to train library staff on how to administer Narcan to someone who has overdosed on an opioid like fentanyl.

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Eli covers public health, transportation and state politics for the Bay City News Foundation, serves as the main editor of the Public Health and COVID-19 Information Hub and assists with Local News Matters' social media strategy. He has also previously covered local politics in San Diego County as well as college and professional sports across the Bay Area.