Prevention coalition outlines education, lock boxes and business-based naloxone access
The Sumner County Prevention Coalition presented a prevention-focused package that includes youth education, medication lock boxes, drug takeback events and proposals to deploy mounted naloxone 'one-box' units at businesses in hotspot areas; they cited local data showing 338 overdose deaths (2020–2024) and young average age of initiation.
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Megan (director) and Josh (project coordinator) of the Sumner County Prevention Coalition described a prevention strategy that combines youth education (school curricula and camps), parent programs, medication-lock boxes, drug takeback campaigns and targeted naloxone access at business locations in hotspot areas. They cited county data showing 338 overdose deaths from 2020–2024 and flagged that the average reported age of first prescription misuse on a student climate survey was 11.3 years.
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