Opioid Informational and Overdose Reversal Training

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Opioid Informational and Overdose Reversal Training

Everyday more than 130 people die in the U.S. from an Opioid Overdose. What can you do to help?

By Dustin Ritchie

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About this event

According to the CDC overdoses were at the highest they have ever been in 2020 and saw the sharpest increase since 1999. Do you want to know what you can do to help combat the opioid epidemic?

Some topics we will cover are:

  1. What are opioids, the opioid epidemic, and how it is impacting TN and your community.
  2. Harm Reduction
  3. Reducing Stigma
  4. The Addicted Brain and Trauma
  5. Risk factors of an opioid overdose
  6. Recognizing an opioid overdose
  7. Naloxone: how and when to use it
  8. Compassion fatigue, burn out and self care

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