RevivaPoint™ founder Carey Davidson was at the airport one day when the idea for RevivaPoint™ came to him. He had just come from a meeting with a school administrator who asked him if naloxone should be available in schools. Carey couldn’t believe it was even a question, given the vast and ever-increasing number of opioid overdose deaths in the U.S., including many young people.

As he sat looking around the airport, he realized that not only should the safe, opioid overdose-reversing drug naloxone be immediately accessible everywhere other life-saving equipment is found, but that the public needs to be educated about what to do when an overdose emergency occurs, because seconds count to save a life.

Carey soon developed the RevivaPoint™, a sturdy, highly visible, and secure housing unit for naloxone. The unit dispenses 2 doses of naloxone in an emergency and provides instructions and a link to a video with information about how to respond when an overdose is suspected. The U.S. Government Patent Office approved a patent for the RevivaPoint™ overdose rescue unit on May 7, 2024.

Carey’s goal is for RevivaPoint™ units to become a universally-recognized, nationwide system for public response to overdose emergencies – one that makes Naloxone more easily and quickly accessible and educates the public to administer Naloxone first and then call 9-1-1.