Mercer County Prosecutors will discuss the 2-year-old program, which has saved the lives of multiple heroin overdose victims
TRENTON - Mercer County prosecutors are holding a special conference to give updates on the nearly two-year-old Narcan initiative that has prevented multiple potential overdose deaths since it was launched.
Next week Mercer County Prosecutor Angelo Onofri will give updates on the initiative, which began in October of 2014 and allowed Mercer County police departments to own and use 600 kits of Narcan.
Narcan - alternatively called Naloxone - is a medicine that is used on people suffering from opiate overdoses and can bring a person back from a near-fatal overdose. By the spring of 2015, the county's police had already used Narcan to reverse 19 overdoses.
Now, nearly two years later, Onofri plans to give a update on the initiative, including replenishing the supply of Narcan that police have used since 2014 and announcing the county's One Voice program.
Mercer County prosecutors could not give more information on the announcement Thursday.
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