Ndsu Program Provides More Access to Narcan

Thanks to a $250,000 state grant, naloxone nasal spray kits will soon be available at sports arenas, bars, campgrounds, community centers, schools, and more in North Dakota, KFGO reports.

Students in the North Dakota State University's Opioid and Naloxone Education (ONE) program are working with public health facilities to make the kits available.

Each box contains two doses of naloxone, a CPR mask, gloves, and wipes.

"We hope we never have to use it, but it's there just in case," says NDSU professor and pharmacist Heidi Eukel.

The kits will have everything needed to save an overdose, including instructions.

"If you find someone unresponsive and it could be due to an opioid, the video actually walks someone through all the steps just like you'd do with an AED," Eukel says.

With those AEDs in a school, it talks you through, "'put the patches here, push this button,'" Eukel says.

So, that video in the ONE box does that.

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