By Mike Nolan

Daily Southtown

COOK COUNTY, Ill. — Family Guidance Centers offers medications to people meant to counteract the effects of opioid overdoses from a clinic.

But whether it’s access to transportation, child care needs or physical limitations, the nonprofit knows there are many people who need the lifesaving drugs but can’t get to the clinic, said Ron Vlasaty, Family Guidance Centers’ chief operating officer.

With the help of a Cook County grant of nearly $1 million, Vlasaty and county officials celebrated the rollout of a van that will bring the medications to more than two dozen south suburbs.

The program was announced Friday during a news conference outside the Posen Fire Department’s headquarters, with the new van and another already in use by Family Guidance Center

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