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Gainesville acquiring kits to battle overdoses
City signs off on partnership with Medical Association of Georgia Foundation
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Hall County Fire Services' Christie Grice, battalion chief of business services, holds a syringe of naloxone hydrochloride‎ used to counter the effects of opioids, especially in overdoses.
The Gainesville Police Department is now taking an extra step to combat heroin and prescription drug overdoses by teaming with the Medical Association of Georgia Foundation to acquire 82 naloxone kits, which reverse the effects of opioid overdoses. City Council signed off on the deal Tuesday. Naloxone has proven extremely effective in preventing overdose deaths from heroin and painkillers.