The Austin City Limits Music Festival has teamed up with an overdose prevention nonprofit to teach people about the dangers of fentanyl.
This Must Be The Place, an overdose prevention nonprofit, said it handed out just over 3,000 doses of Kloxxado during Weekend 1 of the festival.William Perry, the director of This Must Be The Place, said when gates opened on Friday, Oct. 6, the organization had a variety of parents, young students, school teachers and Travis County Sheriff's deputies stopping by to grab a free pouch of overdose reversal medication and learn more about how to administer it.
Since the opioid fentanyl is getting stronger by the day, the nonprofit was handing out Kloxxado, a nasal spray packed with a double dose of the overdose reversing agent Naloxone. The medication was being passed out in orange cartridges that indicate it's twice the strength of single-dose Narcan, which comes in a red cartridge. "Which means you're not going to have to, sit around and hope that it works at or see if you need to give that second one.
"Every single person who wanted some got some. But the people who didn't want something just wanted education. They got that as well," Perry said.By passing out Kloxxado, the nasal spray was distributed to eight different ZIP codes in Austin, including 78704, 78745, 78748, 78741, 78746, 78702, 78744 and 78723.
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