Newspaper Box 2.0: Providing Emergency Narcan
April 11, 2024 8:46AM EDT
The street next to a Seattle Times newspaper box in front of the building that houses the Times’ newsroom is empty, Sunday, March 15, 2020 in Seattle, as the headline “Silence in Seattle” is displayed. Washington Gov. Jay Inslee said Sunday night that he would order all bars, restaurants, entertainment and recreation facilities in the state to temporarily close to fight the spread of coronavirus, as Washington state has by far the most deaths in the U.S. from the disease. (AP Photo/Ted S. Warren)
CANTON, Ohio (News Talk 1480 WHBC) – We don’t see newspaper boxes like we used to.
Here’s a new purpose for them.
The Stark Community Support Network and Canton City Public Health have repurposed a “paper box” to house Narcan.
The box is at the support network’s offices on Harrisburg Road NE near the traffic circle and Cook’s Lagoon Park.
The nearby area has been identified as one of the highest for overdoses in the county.
They say the county has lost 685 people to overdoses between 2019 and 2023.
