By Nick Gale, WLS-AM 890 News

(CHICAGO) A bill that would provide greater access to a heroin overdose antidote could hit the president’s desk soon.

U.S. Rep. Bob Dold has been working for a while on the bipartisan legislation Lali’s Law today, which would allow parents access to naloxone, a drug that can save someone from a heroin overdose.

“We’ve worked with Walgreen, we’ve worked with CVS, to try and make sure there is education on this and so they are going to be able to provide [naloxone] over the counter,” Dold told The Big John Howell Show on WLS.

The bill passed in the House in May and this week passed in the Senate. Lali’s Law is named after Alex Laliberte, a Buffalo Grove resident and Stevenson High School graduate, who passed away seven years ago from a drug overdose.

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