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Heart of the Matter
Former NFL player Montee Ball speaks on mental health, masculinity and making a difference for communities of color February 23, 2021 Partnership to End Addiction Episode 10
Heart of the Matter
Former NFL player Montee Ball speaks on mental health, masculinity and making a difference for communities of color
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Heart of the Matter
Former NFL player Montee Ball speaks on mental health, masculinity and making a difference for communities of color Feb 23, 2021 Episode 10
Partnership to End Addiction
He was a highly celebrated student athlete with a promising professional career ahead of him. Yet, due to his struggles with addiction, Montee Ball found himself sitting in a jail cell while his former teammates won the Super Bowl. Now in recovery, Montee has walked away from the NFL and committed himself to breaking down barriers that prevent Black and Brown people from accessing help for mental h
Wisconsin Group Installs Naloxone Boxes To Curb Opioid Overdoses patch.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from patch.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
MADISON, Wis. (AP) — With opioid overdoses setting records in 2020, an effort is underway to install boxes in public that would make a frequently used rescue medication available in
With overdoses at record highs, state-wide program provides Naloxone as a rescue drug. //end headline wrapper ?>Naloxone hydrochloride. Photo by Intropin, (CC BY 3.0), via Wikimedia Commons
Isolation from the pandemic led to record-breaking overdoses in 2020. More than 81,000 people died nationally, and more than 500 people in Milwaukee County died from overdoses last year.
Working with Milwaukee-based pharmacy Serve You Rx, the group Wisconsin Voices for Recovery has installed naloxone boxes for people overdosing from opioids.
The rescue medication, commonly known as Narcan, can be administered without a prescription. Dr.
Alison Miller, with UW Health, said the symptoms of an overdose are shallow breathing and blue lips.