{"id":87548,"date":"2025-08-22T13:16:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87548\/"},"modified":"2025-08-22T13:16:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T13:16:11","slug":"meriter-works-to-make-life-saving-drug-more-accessible-to-those-at-high-risk-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/87548\/","title":{"rendered":"Meriter works to make life-saving drug more accessible to those at high risk | Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MADISON (WKOW ) &#8212; UnityPoint Health &#8211; Meriter announced a new initiative looking to expand the availability of Naloxone (Narcan) kits.<\/p>\n<p>Naloxone is a life-saving drug to help reverse opioid overdoses.<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, 18.8% of patients discharged from Meriter received an opioid prescription, but only around 7% also received a prescription or had naloxone as well.<\/p>\n<p>The take-home kits would be given to patients at an increased risk for overdose.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis project began with the vision and dedication of our Pain Management Pharmacists and Nurse colleagues, who recognized an opportunity to remove cost barriers to Narcan for our highest-risk patients through a Foundation grant,\u201d said Mandy Ketterer, a discharge pharmacist at UnityPoint Health \u2013 Meriter.<\/p>\n<p>Everyone receiving the kit will get personalized education to help them recognize and overdose and how to administer the medication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON (WKOW ) &#8212; UnityPoint Health &#8211; Meriter announced a new initiative looking to expand the availability of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87549,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[64,63,137,490,44,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-87548","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-health","11":"tag-medication","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-top-stories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}