The Florida Department of Health has added a higher dose naloxone to its arsenal to help emergency responders deal with the opioid crisis.
As fentanyl continues to get stronger, police, fire and EMS agencies around the country are turning to higher dose naloxone to save lives. Now, Florida’s HEROS Program is adding ZIMHI, a 5mg intramuscular dose of naloxone to its arsenal.
HEROS (Helping Emergency Responders Obtain Support) is a program within the Florida Department of Health that provides free naloxone to emergency response agencies.
Agencies can get ZIMHI now even though it’s not listed yet online.
“ZIMHI has been added as an option to our online system,” said Victor Johnson, The Florida Department of Health deputy director of emergency preparedness and community support. “However, we are having a system issue where this product is not currently showing up as an option for the applicant.”
Johnson said that will be fixed this month.
Until that issue is resolved, Johnson said applicants can order ZIMHI now and contact the Department of Health at herosprogram@flhealth.gov and they will place the order in another manner.
