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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;">July 30, 2025</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.govv</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 will be hosted at Progressive Missionary Baptist Church</h1>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="display:inline;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">In partnership with the Boone County Overdose Response Coalition (BCORC) and Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services (PHHS), Progressive Missionary Baptist Church, 702 Banks Ave., will host a SAVE-A-LIFE: Naloxone (also known as Narcan®) education and distribution event on Tuesday, Aug. 12, from 5:30-6:30 p.m.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Following the event, PHHS staff will be available to provide information and brief training to individuals who are unable to attend the formal presentation. Both formal and informal training will include how to recognize the signs of an opioid overdose and how to use and access naloxone.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">SAVE-A-LIFE</span> <span style="font-weight: 400;">is a series of free, public monthly events that offer education and conversations on how community members can help prevent opioid overdose deaths through the use of naloxone nasal spray, a medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">No registration is necessary. A personal supply of naloxone will be available to all attendees. For more information, contact Heather Harlan at Heather.Harlan@CoMo.gov or 573.817.6404.</span></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">This event is funded in part by contract DH240054280 between PHHS and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. As a result of the continued partnership between PHHS and the Missouri Institute for Mental Health (MIMH), Narcan will be available to participants at no cost.</span></em></p>
<p><em><span style="font-weight: 400;">Members of the public may attend any open meeting. For accommodation requests related to disability, please call 573.874.2489 or email City@CoMo.gov. To assist staff in arranging appropriate accommodations, please make requests as far in advance of the posted meeting date as possible.</span></em></p></div>
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