Windsor man uses home drug kit to save addict from overdose

One week after buying an emergency kit used to save people's lives during an overdose, Byron Klingbyle put his device to use outside his downtown office.

The harm reduction co-ordinator with AIDS Committee of Windsor watched as a driver pulled up, shouting about having someone dying in his back seat.

Klingbyle is trained on how to use the naloxone kit, which is a drug used to save people overdosing on opioids, such as fentanyl.

The kit became available to non-addicts this summer.

"It's really a funny feeling. If you never saved a life before, the emotion, the feelings you get, they're all good, but trying to sort them out, it's strange," he told CBC News. "When this happened, all the training, everything came right back to me."

The man driving the car was Klingbyle's client at the AIDS Committee. He always assumed Klingbile had a kit, which is why he drove the young man to the AIDs Committee's Pelissier Street office. 

"It's a good thing I did get one," Klingbyle said.