Sentences with phrase «prevent opioid overdose»

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Last week, the Governor and legislative leaders reached an agreement on multiple bills that include new programs and insurance reforms to improve treatment options for individuals suffering from heroin and opioid addiction; measures to strengthen penalties and put in place additional tools for law enforcement to crack down on the distribution of illegal drugs; provisions to ensure the proper and safe use of naloxone, an overdose antidote; and support for enhanced public awareness campaigns to prevent drug abuse.

Naloxone is a safe medication that can prevent death when administered during an opioid overdose.

«Use of Narcan as soon as an overdose victim is identified is the most effective strategy for preventing mortality from opioid overdoses,» Burstein said.

The HOPE intervention, she says, has «potential for informing how social media and new technologies can be leveraged to deliver low - cost, novel interventions to prevent prescription opioid abuse and overdose.»

The committee that conducted the study and wrote the report recommended actions the FDA, other federal agencies, state and local governments, and health - related organizations should take — which include promoting more judicious prescribing of opioids, expanding access to treatment for opioid use disorder, preventing more overdose deaths, weighing societal impacts in opioid - related regulatory decisions, and investing in research to better understand the nature of pain and develop non-addictive alternatives.

«SAMHSA's Opioid Overdose Toolkit is the first federal resource to provide safety and prevention information for those at risk for overdose and for their loved ones,» said co-author and SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde, J.D. «It also gives local governments the information they need to develop policies and practices to help prevent and respond appropriately to opioid - related overdose.&Opioid Overdose Toolkit is the first federal resource to provide safety and prevention information for those at risk for overdose and for their loved ones,» said co-author and SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde, J.D. «It also gives local governments the information they need to develop policies and practices to help prevent and respond appropriately to opioid - related overdoseOverdose Toolkit is the first federal resource to provide safety and prevention information for those at risk for overdose and for their loved ones,» said co-author and SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde, J.D. «It also gives local governments the information they need to develop policies and practices to help prevent and respond appropriately to opioid - related overdoseoverdose and for their loved ones,» said co-author and SAMHSA Administrator Pamela S. Hyde, J.D. «It also gives local governments the information they need to develop policies and practices to help prevent and respond appropriately to opioid - related overdose.&opioid - related overdoseoverdose.»

SAMHSA has also developed an Opioid Overdose Toolkit to educate first responders in the use of naloxone to prevent overdoseOverdose Toolkit to educate first responders in the use of naloxone to prevent overdoseoverdose deaths.

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.