Currently, 38 states have at least one police department where officers carry the antidote, totaling to 971 naloxone programs as of April 26.
Here are the 38 states ranked by number of law enforcement departments that carry naloxone. The list includes ties, which are represented with bullets and result in a numerical listing of 24.
Data is taken from the North Carolina Harm Reduction Coalition, a national naloxone access advocacy group, committed to supplying the antidote to law enforcement and community members.
- New York — 201 departments
- New Jersey — 148 departments
- North Carolina — 92 departments
- Illinois — 64 departments
- Pennsylvania — 61 departments
- Ohio — 50 departments
- Massachusetts — 49 departments
- Michigan — 49 departments
- Oklahoma — 33 departments
- Georgia — 32 departments
- Indiana — 30 departments
- Rhode Island — 26 departments
- Colorado — 19 departments
- Wisconsin — 18 departments
- Connecticut — 13 departments
- Maryland — 12 departments
- Washington — 9 departments
- Delaware — 8 departments
- Kentucky — 8 departments
- Virginia — 7 departments
- Maine — 6 departments
- California — 5 departments
- West Virginia — 5 departments
- New Mexico — 4 departments
- Oregon — 4 departments
- South Carolina — 4 departments
- Florida — 3 departments
- Georgia — 3 departments
- Minnesota — 3 departments
- Tennessee — 3 departments
- Missouri — 2 departments
- New Hampshire — 2 departments
- Vermont — 2 departments
- Arizona — 1 department
- Florida — 1 department
- Mississippi — 1 department
- Texas — 1 department
- Utah — 1 department
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