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naloxone

How Nashville is addressing overdoses in its booming tourism district

Catherine Sweeney

April 10, 2025

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Business owners and city officials in Nashville have implemented a program that uses an opioid reversal kit created in West Virginia to bolster harm reduction efforts in the city’s tourism district.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Acme, Appalachia + Mid-South Newsroom, drug overdose, harm reduction, Lower Broadway, Metro Nashville Police Department, naloxone, Narcan, tourism

This new nonprofit plans to flood Bonnaroo with overdose reversal drugs

Blake Farmer

June 8, 2022

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The four-day Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival in Manchester has experienced overdose deaths in the past. And this year brings elevated concern since powerful fentanyl is showing up in more recreational drugs that are often used by concert-goers.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Bonnaroo, naloxone, Narcan

Nashville health officials want more people carrying Narcan as overdoses spike, but how?

Blake Farmer

May 24, 2022

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Public health officials are encouraging more Tennessee residents to carry the overdose reversal drug naloxone because of a sharp rise in drug deaths. But acquiring doses of the pricey Narcan nasal spray takes some maneuvering.

Filed Under: Health Care, Science, WPLN News Tagged With: naloxone, Narcan, opioids

In Tennessee, your opioid prescription will soon come with an offer for overdose reversal meds

Blake Farmer

May 11, 2022

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Opioid prescriptions in Tennessee will soon come with an offer for overdose reversal medication. A new state law awaiting Gov. Bill Lee’s signature requires physicians to be more frank about the risks associated with painkillers.

Filed Under: Health Care, WPLN News Tagged With: Bob Ramsey, naloxone, Narcan, opioids

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