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<p style="font-size: 150%; font-weight: bold;">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE</p>
<p style="font-size: 120%; margin-top: -5px; font-weight:bold;">August 2, 2024</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 25px; font-size: 100%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Heather Harlan
<br />Health Program Coordinator
<br />Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services
<br />573.817.6404
<br />Heather.Harlan@CoMo.gov</p>
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<div style="font-size: 110%; line-height:150%;"><h1 style="clear:both; margin-top: 75px; margin-bottom: 10px; font-weight: bold; font-size: 130%;">Save a Life: naloxone education and distribution event hosted at Friendship Place in Centralia, MO</h1>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - In partnership with the Boone County Overdose Response Coalition and Friendship Church, Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services (PHHS) will host a Save a Life: naloxone education and distribution event Tuesday, Aug 13. The event will be at Friendship Place at 110 N. Rollins Road, Centralia from 5:30-6:30 p.m. No registration is required.<br /><br />This marks the 22nd consecutive monthly SAVE A LIFE event the Coalition has offered in Boone County. Communities or agencies interested in hosting a SAVE A LIFE opioid education and naloxone distribution event are welcome to contact PHHS.<br /><br />Save a Life is a series of monthly, free-to-the-public events that feature education and conversation around how members in the community can help to prevent opioid overdose deaths through the use of naloxone, also known as Narcan® (a drug that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose)
. Attendees will each receive their own supply of naloxone. <br /><br />For more information contact Heather Harlan, Heather.Harlan@Como.gov or 573.817.6404. <br /><br />This event funded in part by contract DH240054280 between Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services and the State of Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services.</div>
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