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 […]
Tag: narcan
Mon QRT distributes 2,000+ doses of Narcan on statewide Save A Life Day
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Save a Life Day to be WV’s largest naloxone distribution event
MORGANTOWN — Save a Life Day is coming to more than 70 host locations across 17 West Virginia counties to distribute the necessary tools to reverse opioid […]
QRT impacts community via training
Naloxone reverses effects of opioid overdose, saves lives Newsroom@DominionPost.com Members of the Monongalia County Quick Response Team have had a direct impact in providing the community with […]
Training to save lives: WV PEERS members give free naloxone demonstrations
When administered properly, naloxone can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. In an effort to share this life-saving knowledge, members of WV PEERS gave free demonstrations […]
Life saving medicine goes digital
A new website that offers Naloxone online may help stem the overdose crisis in West Virginia — and neighboring Pennsylvania — and save some lives in the […]
