Alaska’s Overdose Response and Project Gabe

Windy City plays a part in the state’s efforts to prevent overdoses

The Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) is behind the effort to install our Emergency Cabinets in fisheries and industries throughout Alaska. We’ve shipped them over 1,000 cabinets to be used in their programs.

Alaska Beacon Article:
State puts life-saving opioid emergency kits in fish processing plants, fleet

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In the far north it’s not always possible to get to help when it is needed, that’s why DHSS is putting overdose and other emergency supplies in locations where people can get access to them. They trust our sturdy metal cabinets to stand up to the harsh environment.

Read about Denise Ewing. “Ewing is a public health nurse in Sitka and is the leading force behind an Alaska Department of Health and Social Services (DHSS) effort to provide opioid misuse awareness, education and prevention resources to industrial workers. The effort is called Project Gabe in honor of Ewing’s son, Gabe Johnston, who died of an opioid overdose in January of this year.”

KTOO Public Media:
State to put opioid emergency kits in seafood plants and harbors across Southeast Alaska

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More coverage with an audio report as well.

“Volunteers met in Juneau to assemble opioid emergency kits for fish processing plants in Southeast Alaska. Red metal boxes full of the overdose-reversing drug naloxone, sharps containers, fentanyl test strips, rubber gloves and CPR masks.

The kits are part of a new state Department of Health and Social Services program to prevent opioid overdose deaths among industrial workers, starting with Southeast Alaska fisheries.”