Gibson Gives Announces TEMPO Opioid Emergency Response Kits Program For Nashville Music Venues

Helping Combat Opioid ODs

GIBSON GIVES, the charitable arm of the famed guitar brand, has launched its TEMPO program to offer ONEBOX opioid emergency response kits -- which contain two doses of the opioid reversal medication NALOXONE -- to more than 72 live music venues in the NASHVILLE area. The new life-saving TEMPO NASHVILLE LIVE MUSIC VENUE PROGRAM was announced YESTERDAY (1/26) in conjunction with the METRO NASHVILLE POLICE DEPT. -- at the downtown GIBSON GARAGE. 

TEMPO stands for Training and Empowering Musicians to Prevent Overdose, a partnership of 12 music-industry related non-profits across the U.S. including MUSICARES, THE SCARS FOUNDATION, THE ROADIE CLINIC, SANDGAARD FOUNDATION, SIMS FOUNDATION, HARBOR PATH, MUSICIANS FOR OVERDOSE PREVENTION, LIFE BY MUSIC, PASSENGER RECOVERY, NATIONAL HARM REDUCTION and SOLACE FOR HOPE. The goal is to provide life-saving training for using NALOXONE to prevent/reverse opioid overdoses, and offer a network for recovery from opioid addiction. 

Commented GIBSON GIVES Executive Dir. DENDY JARRETT, “GIBSON GIVES and TEMPO are proud to partner with live music venues across NASHVILLE to provide free access to life-saving NALOXONE for music fans in our city."

The timing of this life-saving overdose reversal drug comes as musicians are touring again, and in-person concerts and festivals are in full swing after post-COVID shutdowns. Lethal overdoses from opioids and fentanyl are on the rise globally, and have reached an all-time high in the U.S. 

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