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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;">April 1, 2026</p>
<p style="float:right; font-weight:bold; margin-bottom: 25px; font-size: 100%; text-align:right;">CONTACT: Austin Krohn
<br />Public Information Specialist
<br />Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services
<br />573.874.7604
<br />Austin.Krohn@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 to be hosted at Columbia College, April 9</h1>
<div class="content"><span style="padding-left: 50px;">(COLUMBIA, MO)</span> - <p style="display:inline;"><span style="font-weight: 400;">Columbia College will host a SAVE-A-LIFE: Naloxone (also known as Narcan®) education and distribution event Thursday, April 9, from 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. at the Brouder Science Center in Bixby Auditorium, located at 705 Rangeline St. This program is in partnership with the Boone County Overdose Response Coalition and Columbia/Boone County Public Health and Human Services.</span></p>
<p><span style="font-weight: 400;">Following the event, Public Health and Human Services 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 is a series of free, public monthly events that offer education and conversations on how members of our communities can help prevent overdose deaths from painkillers like fentanyl 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 the Public Health and Human Services and the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services. As a result of the continued partnership between Public Health and Human Services and the Missouri Institute for Mental Health, 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, 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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