Area health officials are once again predicting a spike in drug overdoses is about to hit the Morgantown area after an alleged “bad batch” wreaked havoc in the Columbus, Ohio, area. […]
Tag: naloxone
Mon QRT to host Free Naloxone Day
Naloxone saves lives — that’s a simple medical fact. It gives sons and daughters back to their parents. Mothers and fathers are kept alive for their kids. Like the woman […]
WVU participating in naloxone distribution program
“People can and do recover from addiction every single day, but they have to be alive to do it,” WVU Collegiate Recovery Program Director Olivia Dale Pape said when asked […]
Mon County Quick Response Team offers free naloxone and training for ‘Save a Life Day’
In September 2021, members of the Monongalia County Quick Response Team (QRT), along with dozens of volunteers, distributed more than 700 two-dose kits of naloxone for free and instructed individuals […]
Get free naloxone, learn how to use it
Last September, about 90 volunteers, including members of the Monongalia County Quick Response Team (QRT), distributed more than 700 two-dose kits of naloxone and instructed individuals on how to use […]
Why does it matter if Narcan is ‘free’ if it saves someone’s life?
It started out as a picture of a sign — the kind that churches and fast food places have outside, where you place individual letter cards to spell out a […]
Save a Life Day
Monongalia County Health Department About 1,408 doses of naloxone reached the hands of the general public on Saturday during Save a Life Day, an effort to make the medication, which […]
Think it’s a line of cocaine at that party? Think again
by Robin Abcarian LOS ANGELES — Earlier this month, in a house on a Venice canal, three people who reportedly thought they were using cocaine died after apparently ingesting the […]
Save a Life Day Saturday in Mon County
Newsroom@DominionPost.com Sam Shawish used substances and got clean a few times, once for more than two years. But a little over a year ago, on Sept. 4, 2020, six months […]
Officer says QRT team would benefit Preston
KINGWOOD — A search for naloxone led a Kingwood police officer to the Monongalia County Quick Response Team. “I was responding to overdose calls, and I would get to the […]
