RAPID CITY, S.D. (KOTA) – A Sioux Falls-based nonprofit is seeking to curb the rates of opioid overdose deaths on the Pine Ridge Reservation and throughout South Dakota.
Emily’s Hope has been working with businesses and tribal governments to distribute naloxone, or Narcan kits, to various locations in the state and on reservations.
“We know these naloxone kits are needed,” said the founder of Emily’s Hope, Angela Kennecke. “Unfortunately, the Native American population is especially vulnerable to substance use disorder, to overdoses, to fentanyl poisoning and death.”…