Otero County Overdose Prevention Program

10/09/2026

The Counseling Center 1900 East 10th St Alamogordo, NM 88310 has FREE NARCAN available to everyone!! Stop by or call 575-488-2500 for questions!!

10/08/2026

We hope to see you there!!

10/08/2026

Thank you to The Tularosa Senior Program for hosting us to do a successful NARCAN tabling event!!!

10/08/2026

10/05/2026

Otero County Overdose Prevention Program will be at the Tularosa Senior Program 35 Radio Rd Tularosa NM tomorrow 10/6/2026 from 11am-12:30pm handing out FREE NARCAN with on-the-spot training. Stop by have some lunch and get your NARCAN!!

10/05/2026

A huge Thank You to the Delores C. Wright Community Center in Chaparral NM and the SANE presenter for having the Otero County Overdose Prevention Program and allowing us to host a NARCAN tabling event!! 34 doses are now out in the Chaparral community. Stop by The Counseling Center to get your Free NARCAN today!!

10/01/2026

We here at the The Counseling Center and the Otero County Overdose Prevention Program feel so thankful to have shared in such a wonderful evening at the Celebrating Your Journey to Recovery event. We look forward to seeing our recovery community thrive and grow, a sincere Thank you to everyone who attended and made this evening possible!! “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world… as in being able to remake ourselves.” – Mahatma Gandhi

09/30/2026

What is the difference?
Between pharmaceutical-grade fentanyl and illicit fentanyl?
Pharmaceutical-Grade
Pharmaceutical-grade fentanyl is a legitimate medication produced by pharmaceutical companies that have developed advanced technology to control the quality and maintain the proper dosages of the end products. Pharmaceutical-grade fentanyl is tightly regulated and is safe when administered by professionals as prescribed.

Deaths from overdosing on pharmaceutical-grade fentanyl are relatively uncommon and often involve misuse or tampering of medications.

Illicit Fentanyl
Illicit fentanyl is the black market version of the drug obtained or made by dealers and mixed into pills, other powders, blotter papers and liquids, etc. in “labs” with no quality controls. The risk of illicit fentanyl is two-fold. Illicit fentanyl, often made in Mexico, is not manufactured to the same quality standards as the pharmaceutical fentanyl commonly used for medicinal purposes. The potency of illicit fentanyl found in items sold in illegal markets can vary widely from maker to maker, or even from batch to batch, and the buyers don’t know the contents of what they are getting*. Fake pills are then being made, sometimes with inconsistent amounts of illicit fentanyl.

Fake pills are illegally made in garages, basements, and other clandestine settings by unqualified drug makers who do not ensure the quality or consistency of the dose. When batches of fake pills are mixed, each pill may contain a different amount of illicit fentanyl making the dose of each pill impossible to predict.

These products are not regulated and there is no way to ensure consumer safety. Because of this, use of illicit fentanyl is very dangerous. Illegally manufactured fentanyl is involved in the majority of U.S. drug deaths in recent years.

*One of the other negative aspects of poor quality control is that at times, the “illicit fentanyl” is not actual fentanyl. Within an illicit fentanyl supply, there may be unreacted precursor chemicals, byproducts that form due to poor heating or stirring, etc. Also, the amateur chemists can change the ingredients (precursors) of the recipe to form “fentanyl analogs.” Pharmaceutical grade fentanyl is manufactured under strict, government regulated quality control standards so that precursor chemicals or byproducts that are left over from the synthesis process are removed as the final fentanyl product is purified.