3/29/18 – 5:18 A.M.

The effort to fight overdose deaths in Hancock County is getting another funding boost. The Ohio Department of Health recently gave Hancock Public Health more than $14,000 to buy naloxone kits. Naloxone is a drug that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose.

Hancock Public Health is also getting is also getting 450 naloxone kits from Ohio’s Pharmacy Services Center. The kits have a value of more than $32,000.

The money from the Department of Health is going to Project DAWN. The effort is a community-based program that offers naloxone kits to friends and family members of people addicted to drugs.

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