Mountain Home, MO. – The Baxter County Sheriff’s Office has received over two-hundred uses worth of Narcan, or Naloxone, from the Arkansas Opioid Recovery Partnership. This was obtained as a way to combat fentanyl-use and general opioid overdose in the area. The Narcan will be distributed to all employee’s of the Baxter County Sheriff’s Office.
Narcan is a medicine that sees use specifically for this function, as it can very quickly overturn and reverse an overdose from opioids by attaching to receptors in the brain, reversing effects, and blocking further ones. Examples of opioids include heroin, fentanyl, oxycodone (OxyContin®), hydrocodone (Vicodin®), codeine, and morphine.
Useful as this medicine may be however, it is not an answer to opioid addiction and cannot affect someone not under the effect of an opioid. Those who are struggling with an addiction can find help by calling the Mental Health and Addiction Support Line of the Arkansas Department of Human Services. That number is 1-844-763-0198.
