Legislator Kara Hahn
New “COP” program to expand opioid overdose prevention program throughout State_2
Legislator Kara Hahn and County Executive Steve Bellone joined NY Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman as he announced details of the Community Overdose Prevention (COP) program, which will equip all police officers and EMT’s in New York State with naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug, and train them to recognize the symptoms of an opioid overdose and administer the antidote. The program will be funded by $5 million in joint federal-state criminal and civil forfeiture money, enough to train and equip every law enforcement officer in the state with a naloxone kit.
New “COP” program to expand opioid overdose prevention program throughout State_2
Legislator Kara Hahn and County Executive Steve Bellone joined NY Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman as he announced details of the Community Overdose Prevention (COP) program, which will equip all police officers and EMT’s in New York State with naloxone, an opioid overdose reversal drug, and train them to recognize the symptoms of an opioid overdose and administer the antidote. The program will be funded by $5 million in joint federal-state criminal and civil forfeiture money, enough to train and equip every law enforcement officer in the state with a naloxone kit.