Project FREEDOM

The project will serve all 67 counties in Alabama. First Responder Expansion of Education and Distribution of Overdose Medication is reducing opioid overdose deaths in rural Alabama through training local EMS workers and municipality and volunteer fire personnel on Naloxone administration, increasing the supply of naloxone to certified personnel, referring overdose survivors to treatment and support services, and a media

campaign on the Good Samaritan Law. This project will work to reduce the number of prescription/ opioid overdose-related deaths and adverse events among adults by training first responders and other key community sectors on the prevention of prescription/opioid overdose-related deaths and implementing secondary prevention strategies, including training and distribution of naloxone to first responders.