BELLINGHAM—Jessica Silver is a Bellingham resident, artist and mother of five.
She isn’t a first responder. She doesn’t work in the medical field. But in the last year and a half, she says she’s had to use CPR or Narcan four separate times to help bring strangers back from overdoses.
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