A potentially life saving measure that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose could be harder to get in the region soon.
Ashley Legere offers training and free intranasal naloxone kits to groups, businesses, and anyone else interested in knowing how to administer this life saving treatment. But her access to free kits is ending on March 31, with no extension in sight.
Health Canada’s Substance Use and Addictions Program has been providing funds to St. John Ambulance to run the Reaching Home program that provides training and intranasal naloxone to Legere and as well as many others across the country. The program is set to end March 31.
“It is of the utmost importance,” says Legere, because it can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
