Narcan two years later: Still saving SCV lives
Henry Mayo Newhall Hospital emergency medicine attending physician Darrin Privett demonstrates how anti-overdose drug Narcan is administered on Wednesday, June 21, 2017. Katharine Lotze/The Signal

Narcan two years later: Still saving SCV lives

Proving just how necessary Narcan has become in saving the lives of SCV heroin addicts, local sheriff’s deputies dispatched Thursday for an unresponsive man feared dead in the bathroom of…

Adapt Pharma visits Southern California, promotes Narcan to combat opioid crisis
Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station Deputy Jonathan Wilson holds a Narcan nasal spray kit at a press conference on June 28, 2017. (Austin Dave/The Signal)

Adapt Pharma visits Southern California, promotes Narcan to combat opioid crisis

Santa Clarita had a 2-1 ratio of people to opioid prescriptions in the last year, but had a 1-2,700 ratio for anti-overdose drugs to opioid prescriptions, according to data recently…

Knight joins task force to fight heroin addiction
Cary Quashen, founder of Action Family Counseling, demonstrates the assembly of a Narcan pack, which is administered via an oral spray to a patient who has overdosed on heroin or any other opiate-based narcotic. Representative Steve Knight, R-Palmdale, said he has joined a congressional bipartisan task force to craft legislation to fight heroin addiction. Ryan Painter/The Signal.

Knight joins task force to fight heroin addiction

Representative Steve Knight, R-Palmdale, said he has joined a congressional bipartisan task force to craft legislation to fight heroin addiction. The task force, led by Rep. Tom MacArthur, R-Conn., and…

Risks taken, lives saved: Narcan after 5 months
Cary Quashen, founder of Action Family Counseling, demonstrates the assembly of a Narcan pack, which is administered via an oral spray to a patient who has overdosed on heroin or any other opiate-based narcotic. Representative Steve Knight, R-Palmdale, said he has joined a congressional bipartisan task force to craft legislation to fight heroin addiction. Ryan Painter/The Signal.

Risks taken, lives saved: Narcan after 5 months

A Santa Clarita Valley mother walks into her son’s bedroom, finds him blue, unconscious and — by all appearances — dead. But, she grabs the “miracle drug” Narcan, gives it…

Sheriff’s Station to receive Narcan donation
A deputy holds a box of NARCAN after boxes of the life-saving drug were handed out to deputies at a training for its use in the field at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station on Thursday, August 31, 2017. Katharine Lotze/The Signal

Sheriff’s Station to receive Narcan donation

The Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s Station will soon be equipped with even more of the life-saving opioid antidote Narcan. Matrix Institute on Addictions donated at total of 502 two-dose packages…

Local deputies now equipped with opioid overdose antidote
Deputies Michael Miller, left, and Tom Drake, right, teach fellow deputies how to administer the life-saving drug NARCAN to opiate overdose victims in the field during a training at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station on Thursday, August 31, 2017. Katharine Lotze/The Signal

Local deputies now equipped with opioid overdose antidote

Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department does not want a drug overdose to be the end of a life. Instead, they want it to be the beginning of treatment and healing. By…

SCV deputies trained on use of Narcan
Deputies at the Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff’s station were trained on the use of naloxone, commonly known as Narcan on Thursday, Aug. 24, 2017. Courtesy of SCV Sheriff’s Station

SCV deputies trained on use of Narcan

Source: Santa Clarita Valley Sheriff's Station  Today, groups of deputies at SCV Sheriff's are getting trained on the use of naloxene, commonly known as Narcan®, so that they can immediately…

Local Sheriff’s station awaits opioid overdose remedy
In this 2014 photo, Narcotics Detective Bill Velek displays a box of drug paraphernalia he uses to show parents what to look for around the house. Signal photo by Jim Holt.

Local Sheriff’s station awaits opioid overdose remedy

Local sheriff’s officials busy responding to the ill-effects of a heroin/opioid epidemic in the SCV are eagerly awaiting the arrival of a drug which can stop an opioid overdose. The…

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