Local Hospitals Offer Free Medication To Reverse Opioid Overdoses:

North Memorial Health is making overdose prevention more accessible with a new offering at its hospitals' security desks. Both North Memorial Health Hospital in Robbinsdale and the Maple Grove Hospital will have naloxone and fentanyl test strips available for anyone who needs it, free of change. That's thanks to a partnership with the Steve Rummler HOPE Network, a Minnesota nonprofit that addresses the opioid crisis. Fentanyl test strips are designed to test street drugs for the presence of fentanyl. Naloxone, in this form, is… Read More