The medication, administered as a nasal spray, needs to be stored within a climate-controlled facility, so county officials are still working to figure out how to equip parks that don't have clubhouses, permanent restrooms or other buildings. More: Camden County schools to get overdose antidote kits Other sites include New Brooklyn Park in Winslow and Wiggins Waterfront Park and Marina in Camden.Īlso: The Parks Department's building in Cherry Hill's Maria Barnaby Greenwald Park, the county's driving range on the Cooper River, and in the restrooms and Boathouse at Cooper River. The boxes are now in eight Camden County park locations, including clubhouses at Newton Lake Park and Timber Creek Park, The reversal is temporary, buying valuable time for first responders to get a person to a hospital or to administer additional aid. That’s what makes (access to Narcan) so crucial."įentanyl, which is far more potent than heroin and other opioids, can sometimes require more than one dose of Narcan to revive someone from an overdose. "A lot of synthetic substances are in street drugs it’s in everything now. "We’re seeing fentanyl in most street drugs," she explained. Many of those overdoses are due to fentanyl, which has infiltrated most of the supply of street drugs, said Caryelle Lasher, director of Camden County's Department of Health.Īn emerging threat: The race against tranq: ‘If you’re not dying, you’re losing limbs’ This is about saving lives, and in today's world, this is what we need to do to save lives." "(The naloxone is) not here to encourage people to use in public parks or libraries, but people who have the disease of addiction will use wherever they can. "Folks are using (drugs) in public spaces," Cappelli said. The lawsuits: How will Camden County use millions in opioid settlement funds?Įquipping parks with naloxone, and training the county's park ambassadors to administer the antidote, came about through a recommendation by the Camden County Addiction Awareness Task Force, Cappelli said, part of an ongoing effort "to get these boxes wherever we can, including schools, parks, really all public places." Now, Camden County parks will have naloxone kits, said Commissioner Director Lou Cappelli. Last year, Camden County schools were all equipped with naloxone county libraries also have the antidote on hand. Statewide, 4,886 doses of naloxone were administered between Jan. In just the first four months of this year, 117 people in Camden County have lost their lives to overdoses.īut that number, as tragic as it is, could have been much higher: Naloxone, the opioid overdose antidote also known by its brand name Narcan, has been administered 561 times in the county, according to the health department. Watch Video: VIDEO: How to administer Narcan
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