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MCCC provides community access to an overdose prevention tool

All around campus there are now Naloxone/Narcan dispensers which are free to use. Narcan is a nasal shot of medicine that can aid with an opioid overdose and clear opioids from a user’s system. MCCC and the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services have partnered to provide the school […]

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Disagreeing over Narcan

Narcan {Photo via Creative Commons} MCCC security officers still do not carry Narcan, a drug that reverses the life-threatening effects of opioids when administered during an overdose. A story in the March 2018 issue of the Agora addressed the college’s handling of addiction on campus. In that story, social worker […]