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Public Health and Safety Committee highlights expanded Narcan distribution and changes to overdose reporting
Summary
Committee members reported a small number of overdoses in April and said state reporting changes to ODMAP now require emergency responders to report overdoses, producing faster local alerts. The department said 1,140 boxes of Narcan and 126 test strips were distributed last month and described Naloxone Plus outreach for nonfatal overdoses.
A committee member reported that in April the county recorded one fatal and one nonfatal overdose and that new state requirements now have emergency personnel reporting overdoses into the ODMAP system, feeding rapid alerts to the county.
"If they do that, then if it's in Will County, then we get an alert on OD map," the member said, describing a consolidated database that provides faster geographic…
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