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...say “just tell me what to do,” draw on people’s past efforts at weight loss, and raise concerns (with permission). Download transcript (pdf) Episode 42: MI for People with Opioid...

...learned from her work with overdose prevention sites (a model of peer-run safe consumption sites) in Vancouver, Canada. The session covered changes in overdose prevention site utilization during COVID-19, the...

...To find events in your state/county please visit the International Overdose Day website.  1 https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2020-07-16-cdc-drug-overdose-deaths-46-2019 2 https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/

...including prescription medications, heroin, and other synthetic narcotics have claimed 50,042 lives in 2019 and 69,710 lives in 2020.1,3 To find events in your state/county please visit the International Overdose Day website. 1 

...and prepare lay responders to intervene in an overdose situation. Naloxone trainings have been shown to improve knowledge and self-efficacy related to opioid overdose management and result in successful overdose...

By: HEAL Connections The Opioid-Overdose Reduction Continuum of Care Approach (ORCCA): A Policymakers Guide to Implementing Evidence-Based Strategies that Address Opioid Overdose aims to help policymakers,

...- La adicción y el cerebro Hijacker (Spanish) - Secuestrador Refusal Skills (Spanish) - Habilidades de rechazo Teens and Opioids (Spanish) - Adolescentes y opioides Swahili Opioid Prevention M

...behind.   The campaign raises awareness of overdose, which is one of the world’s worst public health crises, and stimulates action and discussion about evidence-based overdose prevention and drug policy....

...for reducing opioid overdose deaths. The strategies include: opioid overdose education and naloxone distribution, medication for treatment of opioid use disorder, and safer opioid prescribing and d

...o Mês de Conscientização sobre a Overdose e o Dia Internacional de Conscientização sobre a Overdose, que ocorre anualmente em 31 de agosto. Recursos: https://salud-america.org/drug-overdose

...lives: specifically, laws offering protection from arrest, in conjunction with expanded naloxone access, predict a 10 percent reduction in opioid overdose deaths. Overdose mortality in the United States continues to rise,...

The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Good Samaritan Laws Overdose deaths have skyrocketed in recent years. (See Figure 1.) People experiencing overdoses require immediate medical attention: any time...

Medications for Opioid Use Disorder Infographic This infographic shows the different types of medications prescribed for opioid overdose, withdrawal, and addiction. Medications for opioid overdose, withdrawal, and addictio

...misusing prescription opioids, individuals using illicit opioids such as heroin or fentanyl, health care practitioners, family and friends of people who have opioid use disorder, and community members who come...

...Recovery Services and an Assistant Professor, Steve Hicks School of Social Work, University of Texas at Austin Opioid-involved drug overdose deaths continue to devastate the U.S., making the opioid epidemic...

...of Medication-Assisted Treatment: What’s the Truth? What’s a Myth?" (PDF) "How do you tell your healthcare provider that you are using drugs?" (PDF) Dr. Kym Leonard Mwansa   "The Opioid...