A couple, Michelle and Micah Sawyer, founded Micah's Hugs after losing their son to a fentanyl overdose. They are combating the fentanyl crisis by repurposing old newspaper boxes to distribute Naloxone, also known as Narcan, which can reverse overdoses. Over four years, they have provided training to large groups on overdose awareness and given out approximately 13,000 boxes of Naloxone. Choosing boxes over expensive vending machines, they customize these boxes with usage information and reminders of lives lost due to overdoses.
"Unfortunately, we get to know a lot of parents who have lost," said Michelle. The couple lost their son Micah Jr. to a fentanyl overdose in 2019.
"We've been going out the last 3 or 4 years doing a lot of education training at different places sometimes groups of 150 to 200 people. And we always give out Narcan to anyone that comes to our training," said Michelle Sawyer, Micah's Hugs.
So they, far they've doled roughly 13,000 boxes of Naloxone spray also known as Narcan.
We thought that was kind of ridiculous, that amount of money that we could put to some other good," said Micah Sawyer, Micah's Hugs.
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