Photo: Narcan package | By Isaac Vargas, Denverite | Local AEG venues will now carry publicly accessible doses of Naloxone in an effort to educate and combat fentanyl-related overdoses. Holding up a plastic box with bright red “Overdose Emergency” decals on the side and neon “Emergency Overdose Kit” lettering on the front, Mission Ballroom employee True Morse drills in the last two screws to secure it onto a wall in the venue.
Two white boxes of Narcan sit inside with small business cards sharing information for how to administer the potentially life saving, overdose reversal drug.
The venue and its management company AEG Presents Rocky Mountains have partnered with Keep The Party Safe, a drug awareness campaign, to install Emergency Overdose Kits containing doses of Naloxone for concert goers to access.
Each kit contains two boxes and four total doses of Narcan, a medication designed to rapidly reverse opioid overdoses, and instruction cards for how to administer the drug.
Bathrooms are also equipped with Keep The Party Safe signage attached to bathroom mirrors that share helpful information pertaining to the fentanyl overdose crisis.
Kits will be installed in other AEG venues across the city including The Gothic Theatre, the Bluebird Theater, the Ogden Theatre, Fiddler’s Green Amphitheatre and 1ST BANK Center.
“This is something that we’ve talked about for a long time,” said Kevin Anderson, General Manager of AEG Presents Rocky Mountains. “Narcan becoming available over the counter certainly changed the game and the conversation on our end. We thought, ‘We can get some of these and have them on site.’ That’s when Keep The Party Safe reached out about a partnership and we were so on board to have somebody else who knows a lot more help us out.”
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August 3, 2023| Music-Related Business| Barb Dye