Providence Saint Joseph's Medical Center unveiled the Narcan kiosk on National Fentanyl Awareness Day to provide life-saving medication to anyone who needs it.
Providence Saint Joseph's Medical Center unveiled the Narcan kiosk on National Fentanyl Awareness Day this Tuesday to provide life-saving medication to anyone who needs it.'We did this so that there are absolutely no barriers to people having it,' Dr. Angelique Campen said. 'You don't even have to come into the hospital â you don't have to come into the ER. You just walk up to the wall out front, open the door and take a package.
The CDC said over 150 people die from overdoses related to synthetic opioids like fentanyl every day. In 2021, 106,000 people died from drug overdoses. Most of these deaths, about 70,600 were attributed to synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl.In 2023, the Drug Enforcement Administration said agents seized enough fentanyl in California to kill the world's population twice over.
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