Training Students to Use Naloxone to Prevent Overdoses
Christopher Thomas of Sonoran Prevention Works demonstrates how to draw intramuscular naloxone into a syringe.
Drug Survival 102, part of a Health Sciences interprofessional event focusing on the opioid epidemic, was open to all UArizona students. The panel presentation featured experts from the Tucson Police Department, UArizona Police Department and EMS, Pima County Health Department and Sonoran Prevention Works. The panelists offered a real-time understanding of the opioid epidemic and introduced students to risk-reduction methodology and practice, drug-testing strategies and naloxone administration for the purpose of overdose reversal. The event, part of a collaboration between UArizona Campus Health and the Health Sciences’ Center for Interprofessional Transformative Healthcare, was held on March 2 at the Health Sciences Innovation Building.
Drug Survival 102 panelist Lt. Christian Wildblood of the Tucson Police Department speaks to attendees about opioid overdose crisis response.
The Drug Survival 102 panel presented to a full house about opioid overdose crisis response.
Jesus Aguilar, public information officer and crime prevention specialist, UArizona Police Department; Brittany Wright, continuous quality improvement officer and 911 response supervisor, UArizona Emergency Medical Services; and Jacob Robishaw-Denton, deputy chief of operations, UArizona EMS were part of the Drug Survival 102 panel event.
A student examines a Rapid Response testing kit, used to determine if drugs are laced with fentanyl, during the Drug Survival 102 panel presentation.
Attendees pass around a Rapid Response testing kit during the Drug Survival 102 panel presentation.
Students listen to Drug Survival 102 panelists speak about the response to the opioid overdose crisis.
Christopher Thomas of Sonoran Prevention Works demonstrates how to draw intramuscular naloxone into a syringe.
Christopher Thomas of Sonoran Prevention Works demonstrates how to inject intramuscular naloxone.
Christopher Thomas of Sonoran Prevention Works demonstrates how to administer intranasal naloxone.
Overdose prevention kits contain naloxone and a syringe.
Christopher Thomas of Sonoran Prevention Works hands out free overdose prevention kits containing naloxone to Drug Survival 102 attendees.
Christopher Thomas of Sonoran Prevention Works hands out free overdose prevention kits containing naloxone to Drug Survival 102 attendees.
Christopher Thomas of Sonoran Prevention Works hands out free overdose prevention kits containing naloxone to Drug Survival 102 attendees.
Sonoran Prevention Works distributed free overdose prevention kits containing naloxone at the Drug Survival 102 event.