What is Save a Life Day?
NEW: You can now sign up as a County Organizer for Save a Life Day 2026 (Sept. 24th) here.
On Sep 25th, 2025, all 50 states participated in the first fully national day of free naloxone. Folks hosted 1,044 events and all together distributed 132,959 naloxone doses. Check out over 1,500 photos here.
“Save a Life Day” started with a two county WV pilot in 2020, and it’s grown bigger and bigger every year.
How can I organize Save a Life Day in my community?
Want to sign up your county for Save a Life Day 2026 (Sep 24th, 2026). Click the link above!
All groups will be supported with monthly planning calls, design and outreach templates, and a mega map anyone can use to find your events. In 2025, thanks to generous sponsors, 300 care packages were also sent to County Organizers who signed up by Sept. 1st! The application for care packages has now closed.
Check out the ‘mega map’ from Save a Life Day 2025 by clicking here.
For Save a Life Day Organizers
We are super grateful for this year’s sponsors!
Naloxone Box Sponsor: CareSource
National Expansion Partners: Healing Appalachia, Matthew Perry Foundation, & Drug Intervention Institute with OneBox
Street Cred Partners: Claude Worthington Benedum Foundation, Greater Kanawha Valley Foundation
Lifesaver Sponsors: CAMC Foundation, Drew & Annette Crislip, Emergent BioSolutions, Foundation for Appalachian Kentucky, Padagis, Harm Reduction Therapeutics, & Shatterproof
Good Samaritan Sponsors: American Friends Service Committee – WV, Ayuda Medical, Community Connections, Grassroots Harm Reduction, Groundwork Project, Harmony Ridge Recovery Center, Mon Health, Recovery Point West Virginia, Romanoff, WV ACLU, & WV Alliance of Recovery Residences
Friends of Save a Life Day (Individuals Only): Debra Beatty, Dave Cooper, & Mike Pushkin
We also want to thank the WV Bureau for Behavioral Health, WV Office of Drug Control Policy, and the University of Charleston Pharmacy School who have supplied naloxone for WV’s Save a Life Day events since 2020.
