By Molly Jett
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) — A training seminar was held to teach people how to administer Naloxone, also known as Narcan, in Louisville on Tuesday night.
The group 502 Revolution held a training session with Kentucky Harm Reduction Coalition on how to administer Narcan on Baxter Avenue. Nearly 2,000 Kentuckians died from fentanyl overdoses in 2021.
Those deaths led to the training session for Narcan, which can reverse the effects of an overdose.
“Kentucky has an alarming rate of overdose deaths and it keeps getting higher every year,” said Lynne Huckleberry, with Kentucky Harm Reduction Coalition. “And, in the last few months, we’ve jumped to second in overdoses in the United States. And so, I do this because I’m concerned.”