ROCHESTER, N.Y. — Monroe County continues to team up with local towns and villages to help fight the opioid crisis in the area.

A video by County Executive Cheryl Dinolfo (R) now appears on both her YouTube channel and the county website. It's meant to teach people how to use Narcan nasal spray, which is used on someone who is overdosing.

It's one of the new tools offered by the county's heroin task force, which was originally formed in January.

"As I said before, Narcan can often mean the difference between life and death — lives are on the line folks, so this is an essential tool," Dinolfo said.

Monroe County has also contacted all local towns and villages, offering the chance to take part in an Opioid Prevention Training Session. Several towns have accepted the offer so far. Greece was the first to join with the county to offer Narcan training for town employees.

As part of Monroe County's response to the opioid epidemic, a database on the county's website is now tracking overdose numbers and where they happen.

Through the first two months of the year, 30 people have died of heroin overdoses. For the month of February, there were 84 overdoses across the county and 16 of them were fatal.

Nearly every community in Monroe County was affected by a heroin overdose, with almost 60 in Rochester alone. 

There were five more in both Greece and Henrietta.