Pottawatomie County health officials are increasing efforts to fight against opioid overdoses.
At Monday’s county commission meeting, the health department’s community health educator Jenny Ebert, described a new initiative the department started, placing boxes containing naloxone in easily accessible public spaces.
“You pick that box up and it gives you step-by-step instructions on a 60-second video how to start naloxone if someone is in opioid distress, from pharmaceutical or illicit opioids,” she said. “It gives you start to finish (instructions), to call 911, how to administer the nasal spray, how to put them in the recovery position and wait for EMS to come.”
