Navigate Recovery leads efforts to combat Georgia’s opioid crisis

According to the most recent data from the CDC, about 2,500 people died in Georgia from a drug overdose between October 2021 and October 2022.

Farley Barge, the co-founder and president of Navigate Recovery, says it breaks his heart every time he hears that another person in his community and in the state of Georgia has died due to an opioid drug overdose.

On Wednesday’s edition of “Closer Look,” Barge and Ashley Parham, a lifeline lead recovery coach and program implementation specialist at Navigate Recovery, talked with show host Rose Scott about Georgia’s opioid crisis, Navigate Recovery’s Narcan training program and a new initiative to install vending machines that contain Narcan, an opioid treatment medication that can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose.