I want to let you know about an important and timely new initiative from our friends at WA-DOH. 

As many of you may already know Sean Hemmerle, a former Outreach Worker for the Tacoma Needle Exchange, was recently hired by WA-DOH to implement DPH's new Overdose Education & Naloxone Distribution Program. The purpose of this program is to, "get naloxone into the hands of the people most likely to witness and respond to an overdose- people who use drugs and their friends and family. Some organization examples are jails and prisons (for persons about to be released into their community), drug treatment programs, transitional/abstinence-based housing, programs serving the homeless and marginally housed, and other agencies that work directly with persons who use drugs."

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