New UT program makes Narcan accessible on campus

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A new on-campus collaboration will allow UT students, faculty and staff to pick up Narcan doses as often as needed.

PUBLISHED 7:35 AM CDT Apr. 05, 2022AUSTIN, Texas — Simple and to the point. This is how Claire Zagorski, program coordinator of PhARM at the University of Texas at Austin, believes the school can best combat today’s harsh reality.

Narcan, or Naloxone, is a medicine used to rapidly reverse the effects displayed during an opioid overdose. "Anytime someone has a rescue kit or Naloxone available when someone overdoses is a potential life saved that could have been lost waiting for first responders to get there,” Hardy said.

 

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