Key Priorities in Public Health to Reduce Morbidity
What is a medication that can rapidly reverse an opioid overdose?
Naloxone, also Narcan, Kloxado, or Zimhi.
Name 1 of the Seven Key Prioritizes in Public Health to Reduce Morbidity
●Improve Data Collection
●Safer Prescribing
●Stigma Reduction
●Harm Reduction
●Treatment Expansion
●Criminal Justice Reform
●Regulatory Change
What is a type of opioid agonist?
Methadone, Buprenorphine
News organizations, government agencies, and medical organizations need to adopt new language to reduce (what)
Stigma/Stigmatizing Language
Other than fatal overdose, what are some other health outcomes associated with prescription or synthetic opioid abuse?
Mental health, infections from needle sharing ect..
Harm Reduction _______ Lives
Saves
What is the name for a type of law that provides Immunity from criminal prosecution for drug-related offenses if the person was seeking medical assistance for someone overdosing?
A Good Samaritan Law
Expanding pre-arrest deviation options, changing policing practices, reducing adversarial encounters with drug users, and providing medication-assisted treatment in jails and prisons - Are all examples of _____ _____ ____
Criminal Justice Reform
2mg of this Synthetic Opioid is considered a potentially lethal dose.
Fentanyl
What type of surveillance is needed to build overdose tracking.
Hint: Recruited Participant Collectors
Sentinel Surveillance