Including Narcan News Today

The stories, i still learn something every time i meet someone like joann peterson. the idea that the ultimate first responder in this opioid epidemic is usually a family member. >> we really want to educate families how to recognize an overdose and what puts them at risk and make sure they have narcan in their home. >> it gives families a chance to rescue someone they love. do have you any idea how many rescues have been reported? >> i know for learn to cope, its been over 200. >> a volunteer w...

Something every time i meet someone like joann peterson. the idea that the ultimate first responder in in opioid epidemic is usually a family member. >> we really want to educate families how to recognize an overdose and what puts them at risk and make sure they are more that cnarcan in their home. >> it gives families a chance to rescue someone they love. do have you any idea how many its supported in. >> i know its been over 200. >> the group is vital support has he wrestles with his son abuse...

Cope, its been over 200. >> a volunteer with learn to cope, jim derek says the group is vital support as he wrestles with his own sons fentanyl use. >> people come to a meeting, and they walk away with a kit, including narcan. how important is that? >> it is critically important. two people that ive trained have used it directly to save their loved ones, including my sons mother, who saved his friend from a lethal overdose about six months ago. >> good morning. learn to cope. >> the stories that...

>> we really want to educate the families on how to recognize an overdose and what puts them at risk and make sure they have narcan in their home. >> reporter: narcan or naloxone is a drug that can reverse an opioid overdose and give families a chance to rescue someone they love. do you have any idea how many rescues have been reported? >> i know that for learn to cope its been over 200. >> reporter: a volunteer with learn to cope, jim derek says the group has vital support as he wrestles with h...

Going to be okay. and i have had so many people say to me they have feel grateful that they were a member of a peer group like learn to cope because they understood the disease. i know a mom, her son had cancer. he had been prescribed oxycontin. because he was in pain. he was taken off it and he turned to heroin and she told me she missed his cancer. she said, you know why? because everyone loved him then. no one gives anything about him now. >> reporter: even after 20 years of covering these ty...