Free Narcan & training
Anyone can learn to reverse an overdose.
Free kits, free training, no questions asked — in Flagler County since 2019.
What we do
Narcan (naloxone) is a nasal spray that reverses an opioid overdose. It is safe, it is simple, and it does nothing at all if the person turns out not to be overdosing. Using it takes about as long as reading this paragraph.
In 2019 the Foundation became the first local nonprofit to secure a grant from the Florida Department of Children and Families to provide Narcan at no cost to people who need it. We have been handing out kits ever since.
“If they’re dead, they can’t recover.”
That is the whole argument, and it is why this program grew past the drug court. Everything else the Foundation does depends on the person still being here.
Who we have trained and supplied
- Every school in the Flagler County school district — we provided the Narcan and the training
- The Flagler County Tax Collector’s office — over 100,000 people a year come through those doors for taxes and vehicle licensing. They came to us and asked.
- The Flagler County Health Department — our team trained theirs
- Nursing homes, businesses, churches, civic clubs, families, and anyone who asks
That is the shift this program caused. We started out supporting people inside the drug court program, and we ended up as one of the county’s Narcan educators.
Upcoming
Next training class
[NEXT CLASS DATE]
[CLIENT MUST SUPPLY] We need:
- Date and start time
- Venue name and street address
- Roughly how long the session runs
- Whether registration is required or people can walk in
If classes run on a regular schedule (say, first Friday monthly), tell us that instead and we will publish the pattern so this never goes stale.
Request a training
If your business, church, civic club, school or neighborhood group would like a presentation and training, we will come to you and run a session. There is no charge, and participants leave with a kit.
Sessions run about twenty minutes for the basics — recognizing an overdose, administering the spray, calling 911, and staying until help arrives.
Request a training“I don’t need that”
People tell us that at every event. We are glad they don’t.
Then we ask the second question: do you know somebody who might? And if you came across a stranger face down on the ground, would you know what to do? Carrying Narcan is like knowing CPR. You are not carrying it for yourself.
Unintentional overdose is at a record high
Most of it is fentanyl, and most of the people it kills had no idea they had taken any. Somebody picks up a pill that looks like something familiar, and that is the end of it.
Older adults get confused on their medication
A doubled dose of a legitimate prescription can stop someone breathing just as surely as anything bought on a street corner. Narcan does not care how the opioid got there.
A kit we gave away saved a woman in her eighties
A Flagler County nursing home had one of our kits on the shelf. A resident on a legitimate fentanyl patch overdosed on it — her body simply could not handle the dose. Staff used the kit, she survived, and her medication was adjusted.
If you are worried about someone
What to do in an overdose
This is general public guidance, not medical advice. If you are in doubt, call 911.
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Give Narcan
Do this first. Spray one dose into one nostril. If there is no response after two to three minutes, give a second dose in the other nostril.
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Call 911
Call as soon as the first dose is in. Florida's Good Samaritan law protects people who call for help during an overdose from certain drug-possession charges — calling is the right move even if there are substances present.
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Keep them breathing
Follow the dispatcher's instructions. If the person is breathing on their own but unresponsive, lay them on their side so they cannot choke.
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Stay until help arrives
Narcan wears off before many opioids do, so an overdose can return. The person needs to be seen by paramedics regardless of how well they seem to recover.
Where to get a free kit
Find us at community events around Flagler County, or get in touch and we will arrange one. Kits are free, and we do not ask why you want one.
Fund the kits
Every kit we give away was paid for by someone local.
Grants come and go, and we do not have one running right now. Community giving is what keeps a supply on the table between grant cycles — which is exactly when people tend to need one.
Over the counter, a two-dose kit costs $45 to $50. When we started this in 2019 it was over $200, before the FDA moved naloxone over the counter. It has never cost the person receiving it anything, and it never will.
$45
puts one two-dose Narcan kit in someone’s hands, free