Feature in the Chicago Sun-Times on new Narcan Newsstands

by Nourishing Hope

August 22, 2025

Read the latest from Kaitlin Washburn of the Chicago Sun-Times, featuring an interview with our Interim CEO Mitzi Baum:

Repurposed newsstands will now provide free doses of an overdose reversal drug to the Uptown neighborhood.

The four newsstands are a part of the Chicago Department of Public Health’s ongoing efforts to prevent overdoses in the city. Naloxone, also known by the brand name Narcan, is administered through the nose to reverse the deadly effects of fentanyl and other opioids.

The naloxone is free to take and will be available at all four locations starting Aug. 27.

Mitzi Baum, chief executive for Nourishing Hope, told the Sun-Times offering the naloxone supply outside the organization’s food pantry is a natural extension of the other services it provides. The organization has already been supplying free naloxone and drug testing kits at its three locations in Uptown, Humboldt Park and West Town.

The stand was set up outside Nourishing Hope this week.

“It means a lot to us to be able to provide this support to our neighbors,” Baum said. “It’s lifesaving.”