The Anchorage Health Department saw a big turnout Tuesday when volunteers and employees gathered to assemble 1,500 opioid overdose rescue kits.
, part of the Alaska Office of Substance Misuse and Addiction Prevention, which will distribute the finished kits around the state.
Each kit contains two doses of the medication Naloxone, which can reverse an opioid overdose, as well as fentanyl test strips, The items, according to Jordan Kamer of the Anchorage Health Department, are designed to save lives. “What these kits do is they block the opioids on your receptors,” Kamer said. “And they buy you time for paramedics, for EMS to show up and save your life from an overdose death.”“Having one isn’t an indication that you do substances, it could just be that you are trying to be a helper you are trying to save someone’s life,” Kamer said. “And maybe you don’t need it, but you can give it away to a friend or family member if you think they need it more.”carry the life-saving drug.
On Thursday, APD Spokesperson Renee Oistad said in an email that the department was working on a policy for eventual implementation, but was still coordinating with medical and legal experts as well as with the employees union. Oistad called it “a work in progress” with no date set for implementation.
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