S2E3: Why 90% Leave Narcan at Home (And How N-Case is Fixing It) with Matt Bitner-Glindzicz

About this episode

Matt Bitner-Glindzicz discusses the challenges of Narcan accessibility and how nCase Tech aims to address these issues.

Welcome back to The Shield Podcast! Today we have our first-ever virtual guest: Matt Bitner-Glindzicz, the aerospace engineer and co-founder of nCase Tech. After his fiancée tragically lost a childhood friend to an opioid overdose simply because their life-saving Narcan was left at home, Matt realized there was a massive gap in overdose prevention. The medication is too bulky and highly stigmatized, resulting in 90% of owners leaving it behind. Matt left the space-tech industry to engineer a ...

People in this episode

Guest: Matt Bitner-Glindzicz

Topics covered

• opioid overdose
• Narcan
• overdose prevention
• stigma
• healthcare innovation

Keywords

• Narcan
• opioid crisis
• overdose prevention
• healthcare
• stigma
• nCase Tech
• Matt Bitner-Glindzicz

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: nCase Tech, Addiction Prevention Coalition

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