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DuPage Narcan Program records 100th life saved Coroner: Saving 100 in two years shows progress in fight against heroin
but DNP is not resting on its fewer funerals took place in laurels,” said Karen Ayala, DuPage County,” said County executive director of the Coun- State’s Attorney Robert Berty Health Department. “This lin. “This success is directly life-saving effort will continue, attributable to the program’s along with recovery assistance many partners whose time and to those who have been saved energy have literally provided so this cycle of drug abuse is those 100 individuals a second chance at life and saved their WHEATON — The DuPage broken.” “Thanks to the DNP, 100 family and friends from a lifeNarcan Program (DNP) recently passed a milestone by recording the 100th life saved since officers began administering Narcan® in 2014. There were 32 lives saved in 2014, 61 saves last year and seven so far in 2016. The DNP was organized in 2013 in response to the alarming number of DuPage County deaths attributed to opiate overdoses, such as heroin. Training individuals to use Narcan began late in 2013. “Reaching 100 saves in just two years shows that the DNP is making progress against the heroin epidemic in DuPage County, and that is a credit to the officers on the street using Narcan and the partners supporting DNP,” said County Coroner Dr. Richard Jorgensen. “Saving lives is our most important impact,” County Board Chairman Dan Cronin The Fenton competitive dance added. “We all agreed that even team captured the Metro Subursaving one life would make this ban Conference championship, program a success. The benefits and took second at the Sectionare priceless to the families of als before placing 21st at the the loved ones who have been State 2A finals in Bloomington saved.” last weekend. “One hundred lives is a remarkable accomplishment,
time of pain and heartache.” The DNP is a partnership among the DuPage County Police Chiefs Association, County Coroner Dr. Richard Jorgensen, County Sheriff John Zaruba, County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin, County Chairman Dan Cronin and the Health Department, which
serves as DNP Project Director and Healthcare Professional. Approximately 2,560 individuals (mostly police officers) have been trained to administer the inhalant Narcan to individuals who have overdosed. The DNP has received private contributions to help sustain this program.
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