Opiate-Free Island Partnership Inc

OFIP is a local 501(c)(3) organization working since 2017 to link the Deer Isle-Stonington community to the best available OUD harm reduction, treatment, and recovery support programs in Hancock County. It helps to identify, develop, support, and fund such programs, so that these opportunities become more readily available in our community. 

OFIP makes NARCAN and fentanyl test strips available in the Deer Isle-Stonington community free of charge. Year-to-date in 2024 OFIP has distributed over 1,700 doses of NARCAN at public events like the Blue Hill Fair, the Stonington Boat Races, and Winterfest; in trainings for Island organizations like the Deer Isle and Stonington Fire Departments and the DIS schools; and to businesses large and small, from Billings Marine to Eggemoggin Country Store. More than 50 business, non-profit, school, F/V, and municipal sites around the Island now host a free OFIP Opioid Rescue Kit containing four doses of NARCAN for public overdose emergencies. In a sign that opioid addiction is becoming a talkable subject in the Deer Isle-Stonington community.