Name: New Portland program offers opioid addiction medication during overdose responses
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New Portland program offers opioid addiction medication during overdose responses

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The program will offer buprenorphine, an opioid medication used to wean people off other opioids, after administering Narcan for an overdose in downtown Portland. Teams will also take people straight to treatment if they like — or at least that's the idea. Watch more The Story videos: http://bit.ly/watchTheStory Follow The Story on Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheStoryKGW Follow The Story on Instagram: https://instagram.com/thestorykgw

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health local news the-story drug addiction fentanyl overdose portland drug overdose drug overdose fentanyl narcan naloxone MOOD Portland Portland MOOD portland fire and rescue multnomah county health department CareOregon

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