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Old newspaper dispensers deliver Narcan opioid overdose reversal drug instead of news
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Tasha Withrow, a co-founder of harm reduction organization Project Mayday, said Narcan wasn't something she ever had access to when she was using opioids. A person in recovery, she now helps place boxes of naloxone in a community distribution box, where those in need can obtain the life-saving medication for free.
Naloxone, a nasal spray most commonly known as Narcan, is used as an emergency treatment to reverse drug overdoses. Naloxone distribution containers have been proliferating across the country in the more than a year since the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approved its sale without a prescription.
"People can just reach in and grab what they need — we didn't have that back then," Withrow said, while stocking a container in a residential neighborhood of Hurricane, West Virginia, earlier this week. "To actually see that there is some access now — I'm glad that we've at least moved forward a little bit in that direction."
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