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'Shouldn't Mean a Death Sentence': 8K Naloxone Kits Handed Out During Save a Life Day

Volunteers handed out 800 naloxone kits at one church site as organizers aimed to reduce stigma and widen access to overdose-reversal medication.

Summary by Charleston Gazette-Mail
Volunteers fanned out across Charleston, West Virginia Sept. 24, 2026, setting out folding tables and tents to hand out naloxone kits for Save A life Day, a day-long event meant to get the overdose-reversal spray in as many hands as possible. Save a Life Day was created by SOAR-WV in a two-county pilot program as a response to heightened overdose and HIV rates in the Mountain State, a problem which warranted an investigation by the Centers for D…

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'Shouldn't mean a death sentence': 8K naloxone kits handed out during Save a Life Day

Volunteers fanned out across Charleston, West Virginia Sept. 24, 2026, setting out folding tables and tents to hand out naloxone kits for Save A life Day, a day-long event meant to get the overdose-reversal spray in as many hands as possible. Save a Life Day was created by SOAR-WV in a two-county pilot program as a response to heightened overdose and HIV rates in the Mountain State, a problem which warranted an investigation by the Centers for D…

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During Save a Life Day, naloxone access is personal for women in recovery

CHARLESTON — “Free Narcan!” Abby Jewell called to drivers from the sidewalk at an intersection on Charleston, West Virginia’s West Side Thursday morning.

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Morgan County Citizen broke the news in Madison, United States on Friday, September 25, 2026.
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