SAFE GC Coalition: White House Challenge to Beat the Opioid Epidemic

A key pillar of the President’s Unity Agenda is to beat the opioid crisis through The White House Challenge to Save Lives from Overdose, a nationwide call-to-action to stakeholders across all sectors to commit to save lives by increasing training on and access to life-saving opioid overdose reversal medications. The Challenge encourages commitments from organizations, philanthropists, local governments, and businesses—big or small and across all industries and expertise, industries with employees at higher risk of overdose, likely to witness an overdose, or engaging high numbers of Americans may especially benefit from participating.

The Administration is encouraging leaders to commit to train 100% of their employees on opioid overdose reversal medications, ensure opioid overdose reversal medication is in every first aid kits at worksites or schools and purchase and distribute opioid reversal medications to employees and customers so they might save a life.

Administrative actions to address the Opioid epidemic include making Naloxone available over the counter, delivering support to states and tribes, increasing awareness of opioid overdose reversal medications, increasing education on opioid overdose reversal medications, investing in harm reduction services, increasing access to life- saving medication in federal facilities, strengthening a whole-of-society response.

To take the White House Challenge please visit https://www.whitehouse.gov/savelivesfromoverdose.

SAFE, Inc. is the only alcohol and substance abuse prevention, intervention, and education agency in the City of Glen Cove. Its Coalition is conducting an opioid prevention awareness campaign entitled, "Keeping Glen Cove SAFE," to educate and update the community regarding opioid use and its consequences through Naloxone (NARCAN) trainings in partnership with County Legislator Delia Deriggi-Whitton. To learn more about the SAFE Glen Cove Coalition please follow us on www.facebook.com/safeglencove or visit SAFE’s website to learn more about the Opioid Epidemic at www.safeglencove.org.