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Alleghany Highlands Community Services, Alleghany Highlands Healthy Youth Coalition and Alleghany County Sheriff’s Office are partnering to provide a free REVIVE training to the Alleghany Highlands community.
The event will be held on Wednesday, Dec. 4, from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. at the Alleghany Highlands YMCA.
REVIVE participants will learn how to use naloxone to treat someone with an opioid overdose, and also how to identify causes and risk factors for opioid overdose, common myths about overdose reversal, and why naloxone is now available in Virginia.
Naloxone is a medication that can be administered as a nasal spray mist to reverse the effects of the opioid, such as restoring breathing in an overdosing patient. If the patient has not overdosed on an opioid, naloxone is not harmful. It poses no danger to anyone who administers it.
Each registered participant also will receive a card to get naloxone for free at the Covington Health Department and a free kit with supplies.
The project represents a partnership between the Alleghany County Sheriff’s Office, Alleghany Highlands Community Services, and the Health Department.
To register, please visit https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/LMJ5CX6 .
For more information, please call Chelsea Dunaway at 540-965-2100 Ext. 133.
