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MEDICATION 

SAFETY

MEDICATION

SAFETY.

WV DII & Fruth Pharmacy

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As a result of COVID-19, we have gone back to the roots of the “Rex™” Program—innovation. Don’t  Keep Rx Around™ will be live streaming in schools throughout West Virginia during 2020 and 2021.

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In addition, we have partnered with Fruth Pharmacy to educate persons across the life span—children, parents, and grandparents—about the importance of safe medication use, storage, and disposal.

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The WV DII is working with Fruth to develop a pilot program for 2021 that will provide both a medication disposal kit and naloxone to patients when an opioid is dispensed. Research indicates that safe medication disposal (removing expired and unused medications from the home) and a co-prescription of naloxone with opioid prescriptions reduces fatal and non-fatal overdoes.

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ABOUT WVDII

West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute, Inc. is an independent 501(C)(3) entity with a primary mission to reduce opioid and drug-related deaths by (a) preventing substance use through education, (b) reducing overdose deaths through naloxone distribution and training, and (c) supporting harm reduction and other drug-response efforts. 

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CONTACT

West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute, Inc.

118 Capitol Street

Charleston, WV 25301

 

Phone: (681) 205-2287

Email: susan@wvdii.org

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© 2020 by West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute, Inc.

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