The University of Missouri-St. Louis Addiction Science Team is getting roughly $6 million to expand its statewide training and distribution of opioid overdose reversal medication. It’s known as naloxone or Narcan.
This money came from the state after it received money from opioid pharmaceutical settlements.
One of the program leaders, UMSL Associate Professor Rachel Winograd, said it’s going to at least double the number of doses of naloxone they’re able to hand out and the lives it will…
