Members of the Monongalia County Quick Response Team (QRT) and volunteers were kept busy handing out naloxone and fentanyl test strips on Thursday as part of the QRT’s fifth Save a Life Day. As of 4 p.m., the number of naloxone kits distributed surpassed those from last year: 1,104 ...
Despite a rainy start to the day, 1,037 boxes, or 2,074 doses, of naloxone were distributed throughout Monongalia County Thursday as part of Save a Life Day, also called Free Naloxone Day. Sometimes known by the brand name Narcan, naloxone is used to revive someone who has stopped ...
On Sept. 8, all 55 West Virginia counties are joining together to host the largest day of free naloxone (Narcan) distribution in the state. And Mon Health System hospitals will be in the mix. This is the third year for Save a Life Day, but the first time all 55 counties will participate ...
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 who, owing her own life to the medication, stopped by last spring’s Save a Life Day to learn how to administer ...
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 on how to use it. This Saturday, the QRT, which is a collaboration among several local ...
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 message — outside an auto repair shop in Ohio in 2017, then it became a viral meme that still makes its rounds on social media. The sign ...