{"id":1178,"date":"2025-05-16T14:14:44","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/nonprofit-naloxone-giveaway-edc-las-vegas-festival-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T14:14:44","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T14:14:44","slug":"nonprofit-naloxone-giveaway-edc-las-vegas-festival-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/nonprofit-naloxone-giveaway-edc-las-vegas-festival-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Nonprofit Combats Drug Overdose Epidemic With Naloxone Giveaway Before EDC Las Vegas"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>As <a href=\"https:\/\/edm.com\/tag\/edc-las-vegas\">EDC Las Vegas<\/a> kicks off today, the Victoria&#8217;s Voice Foundation is stepping in with a proactive approach to festival safety by giving away naloxone, the nonprofit tells <em>EDM.com<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Victoria&#8217;s Voice is hosting a pop-up from 10am to 3pm at the East Tower of the Westgate Las Vegas, where they&#8217;ll be offering the opioid overdose reversal medication for free in their goal to combat overdose deaths at music festivals.<\/p>\n<p>Festivalgoers can pick up free doses of naloxone along with educational materials on how to administer it. The pop-up will also offer snacks and water for attendees heading into the weekend&#8217;s festivities.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/victoriasvoice.foundation\/\">Victoria\u2019s Voice<\/a> was founded by Jackie and David Siegel after the tragic 2015 loss of their daughter of the same name. The foundation has since has become a prominent national advocate for drug prevention and awareness.<\/p>\n<p>Today&#8217;s pop-up is timely considering\u00a0Nevada has seen a staggering 26% increase in drug overdose deaths, the second-highest nationwide\u00a0spike\u00a0behind only Alaska in a one-year period, according to recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/vsrr\/drug-overdose-data.htm\">CDC<\/a> data.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative reflects a growing shift in the music industry&#8217;s approach to <a href=\"https:\/\/edm.com\/tag\/harm-reduction\">harm reduction at EDM festivals<\/a>. Insomniac Events has been at the forefront, teaming up with the nonprofit End Overdose on various initiatives, including <a href=\"https:\/\/edm.com\/news\/end-overdose-training-20000-people-edc-las-vegas-2024\">training tens of thousands of EDC Las Vegas attendees<\/a> at last year&#8217;s festival.<\/p>\n<p>EDC, North America&#8217;s largest electronic dance music festival, returns to the Las Vegas Motor Speedway from May 16-18.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As EDC Las Vegas kicks off today, the Victoria&#8217;s Voice Foundation is stepping in with a proactive approach to festival safety by giving away naloxone, the nonprofit tells EDM.com. Victoria&#8217;s&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[592,455,593,591,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drug-overdoses","category-edc-las-vegas","category-harm-reduction","category-naloxone","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/musictechohio.online\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}