Dallas hopes to save more lives, reduce opioid overdoses in 2023
The opiate crisis in America is still raging, and it has hit North Texas with a wallop. In Dallas, suspected opioid overdoses have seen a dramatic rise in number over the past three years. And with that number, the amount of Narcan administered by city EMS personnel has also skyrocketed. Narcan is a prescription nasal spray that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose, and Dallas needs as much of it as it can get.
“Looking at the past three years is the quickest way for me to run the numbers and know we have a problem in Dallas,” Clumpner says. “We’re going to try and get ahead of it.” Eric Neidermyer, CEO of Recovery Resource Council, says his organization operates overdose response teams in Tarrant County and will soon do the same in Denton. With the help of the Recovery Resource Council, the new program goes beyond the past practice of simply administering a life-saving drug. There are opponents of supplying drug addicts with Narcan, but Neidermayer suggests a basic level of humanity should help people understand its need as overdoses continue to mount.
The path to recovery Neidermayer mentions is the key new point of the way Dallas will handle opioid overdoses. There are elements of awareness and education, as well as vital follow-up with patients who have received Narcan that will hopefully have a more lasting impact.
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