The Boston Globe: A promise fulfilled: mother launches ‘overdose awareness’ license plate after son’s death
“Juaire said she was also inspired by the experience of an overdose survivor and a drug policy expert named Stephen Murray, who made headlines in 2023 when he began driving around with a vanity plate saying “NARCAN.”
Murray, who oversees the SafeSpot overdose prevention hot line at Boston Medical Center, experienced the attention-grabbing power of license plates firsthand. Almost daily, strangers would pull up to his Audi and take a photo of his plate, or stop him in a parking lot and ask him questions about what it meant. One morning, he said, a man walked into his fitness gym in Plymouth and asked, “Hey, who’s got the Narcan license plate?” The question spurred a lengthy conversation among the gym-goers about the life-saving benefits of Narcan and the importance of harm-reduction strategies.”
