Akron鈥檚 Quick Response Team has become the first in Summit County to offer residents kits and training on how to use them to counter the effects of an opioid overdose.
Joseph Natko, the district chief of the , says the effort is part of a follow-up strategy with people who recently overdosed.
鈥淭he opiate problem here in the area is a community problem, and there鈥檚 not one single thing that is going to make it go away. It takes a community effort, a public safety effort, everybody chipping away at it from whatever angle you can chip at it. And this is just one additional piece we鈥檙e throwing against it.鈥�
Funding for the kits comes from the . Quick Response Teams are made up of an Akron firefighters, police officerS and members of the Board of Health.
Natko says Quick Response Teams are making a difference in combating the opioid epidemic.
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