{"id":69050,"date":"2025-05-02T18:15:10","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/69050\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T18:15:10","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T18:15:10","slug":"will-trump-cut-naloxone-access-56m-program-under-threat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/69050\/","title":{"rendered":"Will Trump cut Naloxone access? $56M program under threat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is reportedly weighing its options whether or not it will cut access to Naloxone, a medicine that can \u201crapidly reverse\u201d an opioid overdose, according to the DEA.<\/p>\n<p>The federal government is considering cuts to a federal grant program that provides access to Naloxone, despite naming overdose prevention as one of the administration\u2019s top drug policy priorities. The program is a $56 million annual grant through the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) that helps distribute kits that include Naloxone. Additionally, the money supports training first responders on how to use Naloxone and other opioid overdose medications.<\/p>\n<p>Naloxone (also known by the brand name Narcan) prevents opioid overdoses by restoring someone\u2019s breathing.<\/p>\n<p>In 2023, the program distributed more than 101,000 opioid overdose reversal medication kits while simultaneously training nearly 77,000 people.<\/p>\n<p>The program was listed as one of the potential cuts in a budget proposal developed last month, obtained by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2025\/04\/30\/health\/naloxone-grant-budget-cut-overdose-prevention\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNN<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to SAMSHA, six grants have been awarded in Washington since 2019, totaling approximately $2.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>Annual overdose deaths have dropped nearly 25% nationally since 2023, according to the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). In Washington, there was a 12% decrease in that time span. Experts believe there is a correlation between the availability of Naloxone and the drop in overdose deaths.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNaloxone\u2014the antidote to an overdose\u2014saves lives every day and naloxone distribution programs have been part of the federal government\u2019s overdose response for over a decade,\u201d Regina LaBelle, director of the Addiction and Public Policy Initiative at Georgetown University, said in an email to CNN. \u201cI\u2019ve been working on this issue for almost two decades, and I\u2019m very scared at what\u2019s going to happen and what lies ahead, because it\u2019s not just about getting rid of bureaucrats, it\u2019s about undermining the entire system we\u2019ve spent decades building up. I\u2019m really afraid of going backwards.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/http:\/\/twitter.com\/Mynorthwest\" data-show-count=\"false\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Follow @http:\/\/twitter.com\/Mynorthwest<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mynorthwest.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/MyNWBreakingNewsEmail-300X250.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"mobile-signup\"\/>\t&#13;<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/MyNWBreakingNewsEmail-830x100-1.jpg\" style=\"margin: 0 auto;\" class=\"desktop-signup\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Trump administration is reportedly weighing its options whether or not it will cut access to Naloxone, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":69051,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4315],"tags":[105,1444,4326,25812,25810,79,25811,20036,16,15,741],"class_list":{"0":"post-69050","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-medication","8":"tag-health","9":"tag-home","10":"tag-medication","11":"tag-mynorthwest-com","12":"tag-mynorthwest-com-seattle-news","13":"tag-sports","14":"tag-talk-and-community","15":"tag-traffic","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-weather"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114439607070787519","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/69051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}