With the dramatic rise in opioid use, addiction, and overdoses across our region, the Snoqualmie Fire Dept. will offer a new Opioid Education and Opioid Overdose Reversal Training Class on Tuesday, July 11, 2023, from 6-7 pm in the Fire Station Training Room, 37600 Snoqualmie Parkway.
In this one-hour class, participants will learn about multiple situations that can lead to an opioid overdose, how to recognize potential and actual opioid overdose situations; and how to respond to an opioid overdose to save a life.
Participants will be trained to administer the lifesaving and opioid-reversing drug Naloxone and be provided with a Naloxone emergency medication kit after training.
Education topics include:
- Who is at risk?
- The opioid family of drugs.
- Accidental Overdose.
- The opioid public health crisis.
- Examples of fentanyl-laced common pharmaceutical pills that can be deadly.
- Action to take to save a life and reverse an opioid overdose.
- Overview of Good Samaritan laws that offer protection from lawsuits or prosecution while helping others and protecting the opioid user from arrest.
In recent years, Washington State, and the Puget Sound region, including the Snoqualmie Valley, have seen a dramatic increase in opioid use, addiction, and overdoses.
Opioid overdoses can be unintentional. Someone on prescribed pain pills can accidentally take too many. Someone can stop taking pain pills for fear of addiction but then restart and overdose on the same number of pills previously taken for pain control. Opioid pills can be accidentally mixed up or confused with other pills.
Many people are trained in CPR/AED to save a life. We use fire extinguishers to suppress a fire. This class is designed to prepare residents with the knowledge and tools to save a loved one from an opioid overdose.
Reserve your space in this new Opioid Education and Overdose Reversal Training Class by registering online today using the QR code. The class is limited to 30 participants. Class participants must be 14 or older.
For more information, call 425-443-5421 or email rangrisano@snoqualmiewa.gov
[Information provided by the Snoqualmie Fire Department]
