The NaloxBox initiative is an innovative, community-access naloxone program that provides tools, training, and awareness to empower laypeople to rescue victims of opioid overdose. NaloxBox is to opioid overdose as an automated external defibrillator is to sudden cardiac arrest, furnishing simple-to-use, life-saving tools to members of the public so that they can accomplish rescues in advance of the arrival of emergency medical services personnel.
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