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Pittsburgh and Johns Hopkins University exploring EMS partnership program

July 2, 2022 / 11:56 AM EDT / CBS Pittsburgh

Johns Hopkins University and Pittsburgh exploring partnership

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - Pittsburgh and Johns Hopkins University are working on a possible partnership.

It's all to help study a new program involving Pittsburgh's EMS personnel.

According to a report from the Trib, Pittsburgh is the third city in the country to allow first responders to give buprenorphine.

Buprenorphine is used to treat and help someone going through an overdose withdrawl.

That can happen after they are given Narcan.

Johns Hopkins wants to analyze the data and see when there is a recurrence of overdose.

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Patrick Damp

Patrick Damp is a web producer for CBS Pittsburgh. A Pittsburgh native who grew up watching KDKA-TV, Patrick studied journalism at Indiana University of Pennsylvania. After half a decade in sports communication, Patrick decided to pursue his dream of working in journalism in his hometown and joined the CBS Pittsburgh team in 2019.