Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center sponsoring Narcan training

Opioid-based medications and heroin are being abused in epidemic proportions. To combat the large number of Long Islanders dying of heroin and other opioid-related overdoses, the Bellmore-Merrick Community Parent Center; the Bellmore-Merrick Central High School District; the Bellmore, Merrick, North Bellmore and North Merrick elementary school districts; and the Long Island Council on Alcoholism and Drug Dependence will host a free Narcan training for parents, families and community members.

The training will be held on Tuesday, March 10, at 7 p.m., in the boardroom of the Brookside School, at 1260 Meadowbrook Road in North Merrick. Training participants will learn how to administer a lifesaving antidote of Narcan, which can reverse the potentially fatal effects of an opioid overdose.

Dr. Thomas Jan, clinical director of the Opioid Overdose Prevention Program for LICADD, will lead the 90-minute lecture and demonstration, which will provide training to anyone interested in saving a life threatened by an opioid overdose. The program will train participants in the proper administration of Narcan and protect responders under New York state’s Good Samaritan Law. Participants will receive free Narcan kits. Anyone over age 18 can be trained.

Space is limited. Pre-registration is required. RSVP to the Community Parent Center by e-mail at cpc1260A@hotmail.com, or call (516) 992-1087.