Sentences with phrase «community opioid overdose»

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Lethbridge and surrounding communities are dealing with an increase in overdoses by incorporating cultural practices into their opioid strategy.

Establishment of the Dutchess County Opioid Overdose Prevention Program, personally training more than 500 law enforcement personnel and 200 community members in the use of the opioid antidote NOpioid Overdose Prevention Program, personally training more than 500 law enforcement personnel and 200 community members in the use of the opioid antidote Nopioid antidote Narcan;

We will be housing a «COMMUNITY TRAINING OPIOID OVERDOSE RECOGNITION & NALOXONE USE workshop offered by Erie County Department of Health on Tuesday, May 22, 2018, 6 - 8 pm.

Erie County, NY Department of Health» Free Community Trainings in Opioid Overdose Recognition & Use of Naloxone for Reversal

Community members were given free Naloxone kits, as well as instructions on how to properly administer the life - saving drug that reverses the effects of opioid overdose.

For anyone who is unable to afford the insurance co-pay or the cost of naloxone, naloxone may be accessed free of charge at community - based opioid overdose prevention programs.

«Last year alone, in communities all across the country, including many in New York, 1,400,000 more Americans started abusing opioids, and every day, 44 more people are killed by an overdose,» Gillibrand said.

ERIE COUNTY, NY — Erie County continues to take a proactive stance to address the serious public health crisis of fatal opioid drug overdoses in our community.

«Heroin overdoses, as well as overdoses from opioids such as hydrocodone, continue to plague our community» states Dr. Gale Burstein, Erie County Commissioner of Health («ECDOH»).

«I commend our partners from the Hamburg and Blasdell communities for proactively participating in this training to help respond to opioid overdose emergencies.»

These findings, which appear in Substance Abuse, come amid an opioid addiction epidemic and could offer a roadmap for how best to equip communities to prevent deaths from drug overdoses.

The success of naloxone has spurred a movement of community programs to help train opioid users and their loved ones on how to correctly identify a drug overdose and administer this life - saving medication.

More data are needed to understand how reliably nasal naloxone reverses opioid overdose in the community.

The study also did not determine whether increased ICU admissions for opioid overdoses resulted from improved community emergency response that may have saved lives but then required critical care, or whether the increased ICU admissions indicated that community emergency response needs improvement so patients require a less intensive hospital care.

Our study finds that communities hardest hit by opioid use and their complications, like overdose death, have the highest rates of the NAS,» said study lead author Stephen Patrick, M.D., MPH, MS, assistant professor of Pediatrics and Health Policy in the Division of Neonatology with the Monroe Carell Jr..

«Reducing the number of pills we prescribe protects our patients as well as our community from the harms of opioid dependence, addiction, and overdose.

Opioid overdoses and abuse can tear apart families and communities, and our vulnerable youth are being put at risk.