{"id":2521,"date":"2014-12-12T11:13:46","date_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2014-12-12T12:20:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T17:20:31","slug":"narcan-to-be-distributed-in-jackson-dec-16-drug-saved-118-people-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/12\/narcan-to-be-distributed-in-jackson-dec-16-drug-saved-118-people-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Narcan to Be Distributed in Jackson Dec. 16; Drug Saved 118 People This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2522\" style=\"width: 390px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/narcan.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2522\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2522\" src=\"https:\/\/www.shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/narcan.jpg\" alt=\"Narcan (File Photo)\" width=\"380\" height=\"243\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Narcan (File Photo)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If a loved one is addicted to opiates, Narcan could be key to reversing an overdose and saving their life, the Ocean County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office says.<\/p>\n<p>To that end, the Ocean County Opiate Task Force and Project Lazarus will host a Narcan training session on Dec. 16 from 6-8 p.m. at Hope Cathedral Church, 48 Bennetts Mills Road, Jackson.<\/p>\n<p>Narcan, also known as naloxone, is administered in a nasal spray to overdose victims and reverses the affect of opiates \u2013 such as heroin and prescription painkillers \u2013 on the body which potentially allows a victim to begin breathing again.<\/p>\n<p>A total of 75 free Narcan kits will be available after the training. There is no need to pre-register; the program is funded through seized proceeds from drug dealers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Narcan is not the solution to the addiction crisis in Ocean County,&#8221; a flyer on the program states. &#8220;It is, however the first step in saving a life.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>To date, the drug has reversed 118 overdoses in Ocean County this year, said Al Della Fave, spokesman for the Ocean County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office.<\/p>\n<div class=\"fcbkbttn_buttons_block\" id=\"fcbkbttn_left\"><div class=\"fb-share-button fcbkbttn_large_button \" data-href=\"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/2014\/12\/narcan-to-be-distributed-in-jackson-dec-16-drug-saved-118-people-this-year\/\" data-type=\"button_count\" data-size=\"large\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If a loved one is addicted to opiates, Narcan could be key to reversing an overdose and saving their life, the Ocean County Prosecutor&#8217;s Office says. To that end, the Ocean County Opiate Task Force and Project Lazarus will host a Narcan training session on Dec. 16 from 6-8 p.m. at Hope Cathedral Church, 48 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12],"tags":[24,63,706,707],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-ocean-county","tag-brick-nj-news","tag-heroin","tag-jackson","tag-narcan"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/narcan.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pgt2Ft-EF","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/shorebeat.com\/brick\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}