P2R Episode 7 | One Box, 400 Lives Saved: Susan & Joe Murphy on Naloxone Access and Overdose Response
From Prevention to Recovery with Marcel Gemme por Marcel Gemme
Notas del episodio
Dr. Susan Murphy, President of the West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute, and Joe Murphy, inventor of the ONEbox, join Marcel Gemme to share how a single weekend of tinkering with a glue gun and a soldering iron became a life-saving kit now deployed in all 50 states.
West Virginia has been the ground zero of the opioid crisis for decades. Rather than waiting for the system to catch up, Susan and Joe built something different — a weatherproof purple box containing naloxone PPE kits and built-in video training in both English and Spanish. No QR code required. No cell signal needed. Just pull the tab, follow Jan Rader's instructions, and save a life.
In this episode:
- How Susan went from higher education to running a syringe service program — and why she never left
- How Joe witnessed an overdose of a prominent community ...