MILWAUKEE — UW-Milwaukee announced Monday it has installed Narcan boxes at its campuses in southeast Wisconsin. It is part of an effort to offer more help to people who could suffer from a deadly drug overdose.
The university said in a statement Monday that the Nalox-ZONE Narcan boxes were installed over the summer at their Milwaukee, Waukesha and Washington County campuses. UWM is the first campus in the UW System to install a Nalox-ZONE box, school officials said.
UWM identified Fentanyl as the primary cause of spiraling drug overdose deaths across the country and here in Southeast Wisconsin.
School officials are hosting a press conference about the initiative at 1:30 p.m. Aug. 22 at Sandburg Residence Hall on North Maryland Avenue at UWM's Milwaukee campus.
