Facts
A type of drug that is used to reduce moderate to severe pain.
What is an Opioid?
Euphoria, confusion, slowed or stopped breathing.
What are symptoms of Opioid use?
This powerful opioid is 100 times more potent then morphine, and is a common drug for accidental overdose.
What is Fentanyl?
If you spot someone who is not responding, who do you call?
Call 9-1-1!
A legal opioid used for pain management.
What is morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone, hydromorphone, fentanyl, codeine, buprenorphine, methadone, talpentadol, pethidine.
This important organ in your body blocks pain and can make you feel calm and happy when taking an opioid.
What is the brain?
It is possible to take ANY pill (not prescribed) without knowing that it also contains a lethal dose of this drug.
What is Fentanyl?
This is a substance that can reverse an opioid overdose.
What is Naloxone?
An illegal opioid that is used to get high, often with a needle.
What is Heroin?
The inability to control the use of drugs or alcohol. The person feels like they can't stop using it even though it's causing negative effects.
What is Addiction?
The leading injury-related cause of death in the United States.
What is an overdose?
What if a person does not respond to Naloxone?
Give a second dose! They may need more than one dose.
Three symptoms of this are sleep problems, vomiting, severe cravings.
What are withdrawal symptoms?
The kind of cell that opioids work on in the brain.
What are nerve cells?
How do I spot an overdose?
Unresponsive or unconscious, pinpoint pupils, snoring or gurgling sounds coming from mouth, blue lips or fingernails, shallow, slower or stopped breathing, cold or clammy skin.
What if a person STILL doesn't respond to naloxone after giving multiple doses?
They may be having a different kind of drug overdose, or another medical problem.