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Aetna to donate $1M to rural NC counties for overdose reversing treatment naloxone

Insurance company Aetna will announce Tuesday that it plans to donate $1 million to buy the overdose reversing medication nalaxone for rural North Carolina counties.

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Mikaya Thurmond
, WRAL reporter
RALEIGH, N.C. — Insurance company Aetna will announce Tuesday that it plans to donate $1 million to buy the overdose reversing medication nalaxone for rural North Carolina counties.

The company is expected to announce the donation at a news conference Tuesday morning with Attorney General Josh Stein and the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition.

Naloxone reverses the effects of opioids.

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