- Palm Beach County, Florida: “The Florida Department of Health announced availability of free Narcan nasal spray kits in Palm Beach County. A kit comes with two naloxone nasal sprays and can be given to a victim of an overdose by a bystander prior to emergency medical assistance. Kits are free and no appointment is necessary, and come with educational material, referrals, and connections for substance use disorder intervention.”
- Four cities in central Missouri: “Central Ozarks Medical Centers announced four Narcan vending machines will be available in Lake Ozark, Camdenton, Lebanon and Crocker … The medicine consists of two sprays and is free of charge. The machine provides a voucher that is then entered into the machine and the medicine is dispensed. ‘These are completely anonymous, there’s no cameras on them, and people don’t have to give their name. It was really important that the Lebanon Police Department wanted to make sure people knew they weren’t being recorded and they weren’t watching.’”
- Ohio’s Public Universities: “The Ohio Department of Higher Education, the Ohio Department of Health and RecoveryOhio, an initiative from Ohio Governor Mike DeWine, have announced a collaboration to provide emergency naloxone access cabinets on public college and university campuses around the state … Officials say the wall-mounted emergency access cabinet will be an effective and easy way to provide the public with access to the life-saving medicine… [U]p to five emergency access cabinets are being offered at no cost to each of Ohio’s public colleges and universities, to be installed in public settings around campus.”
