Heuvelman added, “We’re seeing a really good response from organizations wanting them so far.” Clair County Community Mental Health, and more. Those organizations included the Council on Aging, St. Clair County Health Department office and had connected with multiple other agencies to do the same. Since dropping a naloxone vending box at the MOC, Heuvelman said they’ve also left one with the St. It eliminates that potential stigma, where people are going to see me grabbing this thing.” I don’t have to talk to someone about it. “Our goal is to have about 30 of them throughout the whole county and community to just put them in some of these common places frequently visited,” Heuvelman said. Dubbed MORT, as promoted on the sides of its naloxone distribution boxes, the team was deployed two years ago with the city’s police department. Ken Heuvelman, clinical coordinator and an outpatient therapist at Odyssey House, said they’d initially ordered 10 boxes to hold the nasal kits but have plans to distribute more thanks to “some extra harm reduction funds from the state” under a grant that originally kickstarted their Mobile Overdose Response Team. Clair County under a community effort spearheaded by Port Huron Odyssey House.Įarly this week, the city of Port Huron welcomed the first newspaper-style box stocked with kits of the naloxone nasal spray in the lobby of its Municipal Office Center downtown in partnership with the addiction services and recovery organization. Residents will soon be able to get access to medical kits that help reverse opioid drug overdoses at a host of public areas around St.
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