ORK IN PROGRESS — Wintersville resident Jimmy Bee operates on a mural celebrating the life of the late “Tennis Shoe” Ernie Hollinger.
STEUBENVILLE — Jefferson County Overall health Division representatives distributed no cost, overdose-reversing naloxone kits on Friday n front of the Maryland Marketplace at 1421 Maryland Ave. as component of the HEALing Communities Study Ohio.
Rachel Shorac, health-related assistant for the wellness division, was at the market place distributing kits. She mentioned this initiative is meant to make naloxone additional accessible in the neighborhood at-big.
“We’re attempting to hit all locations of the county simply because we know that all locations, even rural locations, need to have aid with the (opioid) dilemma,” Shorac mentioned.
Thursday morning the wellness division was at the Steubenville Fire Division in Pleasant Heights, exactly where it started its new initiative distributing naloxone. Naloxone, frequently marketed beneath the brand name Narcan, is a drug meant to reverse an opioid overdose.
The HEALing Communities Study, itself beneath the National Institute of Overall health HEAL Initiative, says on its web page that it “can remedy (the opioid epidemic) by enhancing current infrastructures and partnerships. These collaborations are led by a analysis strategy that fo
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