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St. Louis County adds NARCAN vending machine, warns of rising carfentanyl deaths
Summary
County officials announced an additional NARCAN vending machine at county headquarters in Clayton, described an increase in carfentanyl-involved fatalities, and rolled out an overdose-spike alert system and expanded naloxone distribution funded in part by a CDC grant.
County officials announced a new NARCAN vending machine on the ground floor of the St. Louis County headquarters in Clayton and urged residents to carry naloxone as the community confronts a growing carfentanyl threat.
Doctor Cunningham, identified in the transcript as Director of Public Health, told reporters that carfentanyl is an "extremely potent opioid" and said the county has seen a troubling uptick in fatalities involving the substance. "So far in 2025, there have been 7 confirmed fatalities compared to just 1 in all of 2024," she said, and added that toxicology and surveillance work has detected carfentanyl in a share of…
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