Understanding why young people try drugs.
There are numerous factors that can contribute to why young people may try drugs. It’s important to note that each…
Shortly before his unexpected death in July 2022, Ryan Leone established “the Paul’s Project,” a non-profit foundation that supports harm-reduction programs that provide Narcan (Naloxone) in areas greatly affected by the opioid crisis. The foundation was named after Paul Harper, a close friend of Ryan’s who passed away in 2019 from an opioid overdose. Following Ryan’s own death, the Foundation board opted to rename the foundation “The Ryan Leone Foundation: The Paul Project.”
Indisputably, our nation and much of the world is in the midst of a drug addiction epidemic. In the United States alone, this issue has cost hundreds of thousands of lives; many of these being related to opioid overdoses. We want to help solve some of this problem.
The projected role of the Paul Project is twofold: to acquire large amount of Narcan through negotiation with companies that manufacture the pharmaceutical, most notably Opiant Pharmaceuticals (NSDQ:OPNT), and place supplies of Narcan with high risk individuals and in high risk settings.
The latter objective would be addressed both by working in collaboration with other agencies, including non-profits, that already are engaged in this type of work, and providing supplies to target sites in high-risk areas. The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) estimates that programs for drug users and their caregivers prescribing take-home doses of naloxone and training on its use prevented 10,000 opioid overdose deaths in 2014.
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