Easily available naloxone helps combat Wichita's fentanyl crisis

The Wichita Beacon

Easily available naloxone helps combat Wichita's fentanyl crisis

With armfuls of pamphlets, fentanyl test strips and naloxone, Morgan Jennings shows up around Wichita on a mission: trying to stop opioid overdoses. For Jennings, every opportunity to distribute naloxone, a medication that reverses opioid overdoses, is a chance to honor the people in her life affected by substance use disorder. She lost her father to alcoholism in 2000 and a good friend to fentanyl in 2016. “That was a huge life change for me,” …