Carry Hope Naloxone Helped Bring Naloxone Closer to 7.1 Million Texans in Just 3 Months
From April 1, 2026, to July 1, 2026, Carry Hope Naloxone helped bring naloxone closer to 7.1 million Texans, 950+ K-12 schools, and 600+ neighborhoods through law enforcement partnerships alone. During that same time, we also continued working with other first responders, schools, and community partners to make lifesaving naloxone easier to access when it is needed most.
Carry Hope Naloxone
7/1/20262 min read
From April 1, 2026, to July 1, 2026, Carry Hope Naloxone helped bring naloxone access closer to more than 7.1 million Texans, 950+ K-12 schools, and 600+ neighborhoods through law enforcement partnerships alone.
This is only one part of our work from the past 3 months.
During this same period, Carry Hope Naloxone also continued working with other types of first responders, agencies, schools, and community partners to make naloxone more accessible. But for this update, we wanted to highlight the impact of our law enforcement partnerships and show how much can happen when police departments, sheriff’s offices, school district police, and other law enforcement agencies take action.
Carry Hope Naloxone has worked with first responders and community partners before April 1. This article is not meant to show the full history of our work. Instead, it shows how much momentum has grown in just a short period of time.
Naloxone, also known as Narcan, can reverse an opioid overdose and save a life within minutes. But for it to work, it needs to be nearby when an emergency happens. That is why Carry Hope Naloxone works to get free naloxone and overdose response support into the hands of people who are often first on scene.
Over the past 3 months, Carry Hope Naloxone has built valuable law enforcement partnerships across Texas, including:
Bellaire Police Department, Bryan Police Department, Buda Police Department, Kyle Police Department, Gregg County Sheriff’s Office, Galena Park Police Department, Caddo Mills Police Department, Austin ISD Police Department, and many more.
These partnerships help place naloxone closer to officers, schools, neighborhoods, families, and people who may need it during an emergency.
While Carry Hope Naloxone’s work includes more than law enforcement, this update focuses on what our law enforcement partnerships alone helped make possible from April 1, 2026, through July 1, 2026:
7.1 million Texans closer to naloxone access
950+ K-12 schools in safer service areas
600+ neighborhoods better connected to overdose response support
Carry Hope Naloxone has also built a map showing the areas affected by these partnerships during this 3-month period. The map helps show how local partnerships can create a much larger regional impact when agencies and communities work together to improve naloxone access.
Every department that says yes helps make naloxone more available. Every box placed in the right hands gives someone a better chance of surviving an overdose. Every partnership moves us closer to a future where lifesaving overdose reversal medication is easier to access when it is needed most.
Carry Hope Naloxone is proud of the work done over the past 3 months, but this is only one part of the mission. We will continue working with law enforcement agencies, fire departments, EMS agencies, schools, first responders, and community partners to make naloxone easier to access across Texas and beyond.
