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.
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