Agencies to host Narcan training at Seymour Middle School

SEYMOUR - A free Community Narcan Training Event will be held from 6:30-8 p.m. Feb. 8 at Seymour Middle School.
The Seymour Public Schools, Seymour Police Department, Seymour Ambulance, CT DMHAS, and the Alliance for Prevention & Wellness are partnering to host the training.

This event will teach people in the community how to administer Narcan by using a nasal injector. 
This lifesaving Narcan is an opiate antidote.  Opioids include prescription pain pills such as codeine, oxycodone, and morphine, as well as heroin.  
Narcan is a prescription medicine that blocks the effects of opioids and reverses an overdose.

There will be some free Narcan Kits to hand out for those without insurance or who have higher co-pays.  
There is also going to be a pharmacist on site to write prescriptions for Narcan for those people with insurance who want a Narcan Kit.    

This is an RSVP event only to the first 35 people who sign up.  
Kearns is the point person taking reservations.  
If anyone in the community would like to be trained in administering Narcan please contact Kearns at:  rkearns@seymourschools.org  or 203-888-2561 ext. 1003.   
Being trained in the use of Narcan may just save someone’s life.

Helping coordinate this event are: Kearns, Inspector Joe DeNigris and Officer Jon Martin, Seymour Police Department, Lorrie McFarland, Alliance for Prevention & Wellness, Taylor Quijano, AmeriCorps Service Member and Alliance for Prevention & Wellness, Chief Kyle Kelly and Deputy Chief Bryan Ryan, Seymour Ambulance Association.

Seymour Middle School is at 211 Mountain Road.


This is a press release from Rich Kearns, Security Director, Seymour Public Schools.