Free opioid overdose reversal agent distributed throughout Breckinridge Co.

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The Breckinridge County Health Department has placed free boxes of Naloxone at multiple locations around the county.

The health department said each container holds 24 boxes of Narcan (a specific brand of Naloxone), a medication that rapidly reverses an opioid overdose.

Information on how to recognize an opioid overdose and how to administer Narcan were included.

The free Narcan doses were placed at the Hardinsburg, Irvington, Cloverport, and McDaniels Fire Departments.

(Photo: Free Naloxone installed at the Irvington Fire Dept., courtesy of the Breckinridge Co. Health Dept.)

By Ken Howlett, News Director

Contact Ken at ken@k105.com

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