Adolescent Focus: Opioid Overdose, Response, and Naloxone

Adolescent Focus: Opioid Overdose, Response, and Naloxone

This training aims to share best practices for using naloxone to prevent opioid overdose among adolescents, including youth-specific guidance, and considerations.

Learning objectives:

• Name at least two (2) types of opioids (including prescription and illicit forms) and describe how they impact adolescent overdose risk.
• Describe at least three (3) effects of opioids on the adolescent brain.
• Explain at least five (5) key steps in the proper administration of naloxone.
• Outline at least three (3) planning steps to connect an adolescent to follow-up treatment and community resources after an overdose. 

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