Current efforts against overdose in New Jersey …show more content…
The Department of Human Services initiated this pilot program in 2016. This program hires former opioid addicts and overdose survivors, who are now recovery experts, to speak to current overdose survivors while they are still in the emergency room. The recovery experts were all saved by timely administration of Narcan. Narcan is a safe and effective way to reverse an overdose of opioids (Clark, 2014). In New Jersey, stores like Walgreens and CVS are planning to start providing Narcan without a prescription by the end of