Saving Lives During Super Bowl LII

February 1, 2018 By: Education Director

Saving Lives During Super Bowl LII

Community Organizations Join Together to Prevent Overdoses During Super Bowl

MINNEAPOLIS (Feb 1, 2018) — The Steve Rummler HOPE Network is working alongside community organizations such as Valhalla Place, Lee’s Rig Hub, and the Rural Aids Action Network to develop overdose prevention protocol during Super Bowl LII.

With an event of this magnitude and the influx of people into the city of Minneapolis, the Minnesota Department of Human Services expect first responders to be preoccupied, so they’ve approached community nonprofits to lend a hand to ensure that communities have the resources to reverse an overdose.

The goal of this planning is to provide awareness of this issue and resources to avoid a greater loss of life due to the accidental opioid overdoses that are anticipated with large events. There is also increased risk for overdose with higher alcohol consumption during these celebrations.

The group will be providing naloxone, the opioid overdose reversal medication, to first responders, volunteers and the public, free of charge. Volunteers, who are trained to reverse an overdose and equipped with naloxone, will be riding metro transit through the weekend wearing black hats reading “GOT NARCAN”.

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