Dr. Lisa Chan. While not all dental practices are required to stock naloxone, having it readily available in your emergency kit is strongly advised, especially in settings where sedation is ...

Earlier this year, the Polk County Health Department installed a harm reduction vending machine outside of its building. The machine dispenses a number of free health and safety resources, such as ...

JEFFERSONTOWN, Ky. (WAVE) - The Jeffersontown Police Department announced Thursday that it will roll out 25 permanent overdose emergency kit boxes as part of initiative to reduce opioid overdoses in ...

They began by analyzing data from more than 14,000 opioid poisoning incidents that were recorded by BC Emergency Health Services between December 2014 and August 2020 in Metro Vancouver. They then ...

According to content partner KARK-TV, the police department has 50 overdose emergency kits to place throughout the city. The kits contain naloxone spray, CPR masks, shields, and gloves.

These state-supplied naloxone kits are available at Northern Light pharmacies and emergency departments. They also attend public events like the Blue Hill Fair to give out the kits.

They then built a computer model that could simulate how many of those incidents would have taken place within a 3-minute walk from a naloxone kit, based on several distribution strategies.

Despite it being hot during the summer, the Polk County Health Department said this vending machine is temperature-controlled ...

The kits, which include two doses of naloxone, resource cards and information about a community harm reduction program, are an addition to current ambulance supplies.

The Office of Health Promotion (OHP) offers REVIVE! Lay Rescuer training for students, faculty, and staff. REVIVE! is Virginia’s Opioid Overdose and Naloxone Education Program that is used to train ...

Twenty-five permanent boxes will be placed throughout the city with overdose emergency kits, including Narcan/Naloxone — an over-the-counter overdose-reversal drug.