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    FACT SHEET: Biden-⁠Harris Administration Launches the White House Challenge to Save Lives from Overdose

    Today, in support of President Biden’s Unity Agenda efforts to beat the overdose crisis, the Biden-Harris Administration is announcing the White House Challenge to Save Lives from Overdose.

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    Forming the Alliance for Naloxone Safety in the Workplace

    In response to the rising rate of both fatal and non-fatal overdoses attributable to opioids, the story behind forming The Alliance for Naloxone Safety In the Workplace and how it's changing the face of the construction site workplace as we know it.

  • Doctor John Gaal and his wife giving an interview.

    Local Labor leader on personal mission to make Narcan available in flight first aid kits

    Dr. John Gaal, director for the Missouri AFL-CIO’s Missouri Works Initiative’s Worker Wellness Program, is on a mission to make the opiate-reversal drug Narcan available in all commercial flight first aid kits.

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    Construction Industry Grapples With Its Top Killer: Drug Overdose

    ...City and federal officials visited the site recently to give a safety presentation, but they weren’t there to remind workers how to avoid falls or injuries. They were showing workers how to prevent the biggest killer in the industry: drug overdose.