This week’s Hometown Hero, presented by Hendrick Southpoint, is Delesha Carpenter.
Carpenter is a professor at the UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy who is leading an effort to that could save lives statewide and hopefully soon nationally. It’s a new online dashboard called Naloxone Near Me. Naloxone is used to reverse an opioid overdose. The new dashboard provides important information about resources in every county of the state, making it easy to find information about naloxone availability wherever you may be. The dashboard also grades North Carolina counties on well they’re doing at making naloxone available and hopefully pushing counties to make changes to make it more accessible.
Listen to this week’s Hometown Hero segment below, and check in next week for another recognition of someone who is making a difference in our community! Do you have someone who you’d like to nominate as a Hometown Hero? Click here to let us know about the good they’re doing around town!
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