Sitka public health nurse Denise Ewing is spearheading a project to prevent opioid overdose deaths among industrial workers, starting with Southeast Alaska fisheries. It's called Project Gabe after Ewing’s son, who died of an opioid overdose this January.
Public health nurses and volunteers fill opioid emergency kits in Junuea. June 10, 2022.
The kits are part of a new state Department of Health and Social Services program to prevent opioid overdose deaths among industrial workers, starting with Southeast Alaska fisheries. “Our son struggled with opioids for many years, and we went through that struggle with him,” she said.“When he passed, it was something that we wanted to do together,” said Ewing. “We’ve got to stop this — this is stoppable, but it’s going to take a long time — if I have to give a one-on-one education to every person.”She started in Sitka, where she’d build relationships with fish processing plants as a state nurse during the pandemic.
“Seafood processors kind of hop from seafood place to seafood place often. So we standardized it so that they knew that if they were in the galley, there was one in the galley. If they knew they were near the fish dock, there was one of the fish dock,” Ewing said.
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