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Stark Community Support Network and Canton City Public Health unveiled Ohio's first ever repurposed newspaper box for free Narcan distribution. This old newspaper box is a first in Ohio, offering ...
It’s most important for people who use drugs to have access to naloxone. But if you know someone who uses drugs, you should consider carrying naloxone, too, the experts say.
Naloxone: Ohio distributed 219,000 naloxone kits in 2023. Naloxone is a medicine that quickly reverses the effects of an overdose. Last year, these kits reversed at least 20,000 overdoses in the ...
In October 2016, the state began the Arkansas Naloxone Project, a partnership of the State Drug Director's Office, DHS, and the Criminal Justice Institute (CJI) to allocate kits containing the nasal spray naloxone to first responders, schools, libraries, as well as drug treatment and recovery agencies to reverse the effects of opioid overdose.
An Ohio sheriff in 2017 drew national attention for saying that his deputies would not carry naloxone. In Middletown, another southwest Ohio city, a council member also garnered attention when he ...
In multiple states struggling to manage the epidemic, thousands of addicts have no access to Suboxone. There have been reports by doctors and clinics of waiting lists for the medication in Kentucky, Ohio, central New York and Vermont, among others. In one Ohio county, a clinic’s waiting list ran to more than 500 patients.
Naloxone is sold under brand names such as Narcan and RiVive. It can be bought online or at major pharmacies for between $30 and $45 a kit. Each kit contains two nasal spray applicators.
Narcan, known generically as Naloxone, is an overdose reversal drug that's risen in use as the opioid epidemic has continued to grow. Paramedics have it. Schools have it.