Prescription Drug drop off - from our Parish Nurses

From Catholic Health & the Parish Nurses

As we know, prescription drugs is the easiest way drug addiction starts. So let us not have any laying around. (This includes ANY prescription drug.) 

You can drop off old prescription this Saturday.

Saturday, April 30 from 10 am- 2pm at the following hospitals:

    Kenmore Mercy Hospital

    Sisters of Charity Hospital

    St. Joseph's Hospital Campus

For additional info visit: 

    www.nationalprescriptiondrugdropoff.com or call 649-2640

Naloxone (Narcan) training - from our Parish Nurses

NALOXONE TRAINING FOR OPIATE OVERDOSE

LIVES MATTER.

Good Shepherd Community of Faith, 187 Southside Parkway, Buffalo NY, 14220 is responding to the opioid epidemic in WNY by housing a “COMMUNITY TRAINING OPIOID OVERDOSE RECOGNITION & NALOXONE USE workshop offered by Erie County Department of Health on Tuesday, May 3, 2016, 6-8pm.

Attendees will learn how to recognize symptoms of drug overdose and how to administer naloxone (Narcan) via nasal spray.

A free two-dose naloxone kit will be given to each person over the age of sixteen upon completion of this two hour workshop.

This event is free of charge. Light refreshments will be available

Online registration  www.eriecounty.gov/health.  Or call 716-858-7960.