PRIMARY PREVENTION
The department of this government agency that provides information about preventing opioid use disorder.
What is the CDC National Center for Injury Prevention and Control?
Anxiety, nausea, vomiting and abdominal pain.
What are some signs of opioid withdrawal?
Narcan
What is the brand name for naloxone?
Can cause long-term bodily damage. It often leaves users with severe skin ulcers, soft-tissue wounds, death of most or all of the cells in an organ or tissue, premature skin death.
Unresponsiveness and decreased consciousness
What is Xylazine?
Number of people in the United States who overdosed on opioids in 2021.
What is 107,000?
Avoid mixing opioids with other drugs, especially alcohol, benzodiazepines (e.g., Xanax, Valium), cocaine, sleeping pills, and additional opioids.
What are Prevention Strategies?
Prime point of contact for persons at risk for, struggling with or surviving opioid use disorder.
What is the role of Emergency Departments in the treatment of Opioid Use Disorders?
An opioid antagonist that reverses the CNS effects of opioid misuse and overdose.
What is naloxone?
tranq”, “tranq dope”, “sleep-cut”, “Philly dope” and “zombie drug”
What is slang term code word for Xylazine?
Government agency that declared the opioid epidemic a public health emergency in 2017.
What is the US Department of Health and Human Services?
Used to treat moderate to severe pain
What are Opioids?
C.O.W.S.
What is the Clinical Opiate Withdrawal Scale?
Linked to better retention and outcomes than treatment without medication.
What is outpatient medication treatment for Opioid Use Disorder?
What is the number of people died in West Texas of combined drug toxicity of xylazine along with at least one other illicit substance (e.g., alcohol, fentanyl, opioids, cocaine, and methamphetamine).
Is often pressed into fake pills or cut into street drugs, such as methamphetamine, heroin and cocaine — often without the user knowing it.
What is Fentanyl?
Exercise therapy, cognitive behavior therapy and multimodal pain treatment.
What are non-pharmacological treatment options for pain management?
Avoid mixing opioids with other drugs, especially alcohol, benzodiazepines (e.g., Xanax, Valium), cocaine, sleeping pills, and additional opioids.
What is prevention?
Try to wake the person up, call 911, administer nasal naloxone, check for breathing and stay with the person.
What are the 5 steps for the Emergency Response for Opioid Overdose?
Precentage of unintentional opioid overdose deaths in TX involving fentanyl.
What is 97%?
A condition that results when too little oxygen reaches the brain. Can have short and long-term psychological and neurological effects including coma, permanent brain damage, or death.
What is hypoxia?
Choking or gurgling
What is recognizing an overdose?
Emergency medication intervention for opioid overdose.
What is naloxone?
To restore normal breathing to a person whose breathing has slowed or stopped due to opioid overdose.
What is the goal of naloxone treatment?
Second county with the most opioid-related deaths
What is Dallas?
Drowsiness, confusion, constipation, nausea, slowed breathing, addiction
What is effects of Opioids?