West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute

Gibson Gives TEMPO Program supports the West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute for the Healing Appalachia Festival and trains over 20,000!

West Virginia (September 2023) TEMPO (Training and Empowering Musicians to Prevent Overdose) , in partnership with the West Virginia Drug Intervention Institute provided guitars for give-away during Healing Appalachia, as well as was a call out for attendees as Naloxone training was done.

The three-day festival held in Lewisburg, WV, between September 21-23. Every night, right before the headlining act, the team took center stage, not just to gift a Gibson guitar, but more importantly, to train the audience on administering life-saving naloxone.

We achieved a significant milestone by distributing 853 ONEboxes and 1,706 life-saving naloxone doses and training 20,000 attendees from stage.