National Opioid Crisis
Impact of Drugs on Communities
Substance Use Impacts Academic Achievement
Cost of Substance Abuse
Resources Available
Evidence-based Programming Substance Abuse Prevention Programs
- Effectiveness demonstrated in rigorous scientific evaluations
- Effectiveness demonstrated in large studies with diverse populations or through multiple replications
- Significant and sustained effects
- Large longitudinal studies
Mendez Too Good for Drugs/Violence Family of Curriculum
- Evidence-based school-based prevention curriculum
- Uses pro-social attitudes
- Appropriated normative beliefs
- Identifying and managing emotions
- Communicating effectively
- Understanding the effects of psychoactive substances
- Decision making skills
- Resistance skills
- L.E.A.D. has a partnership with the Mendez Foundation to deliver their Too Good Family of Curriculum
Opioid Overdose
- Symptoms
- Small, constricted “pinpoint pupils”
- Falling asleep or loss of consciousness
- Slow, shallow breathing
- Choking or gurgling sounds
- Limp body
- Pale, blue, or cold skim
Narcan
- Narcan (Naloxone) is a prescription medicine that blocks the effects of opioids and reverses an overdoses
- It cannot be used to get a person high. If given to a person who has not take opioids, it will not have nay effect on him or her, since there is nor opioid overdoses to reverse
- Naloxone is a pure opioid antagonist. It works by reversing the depression fo the central nervous system caused by opioid
- From 1996 through June 2014, organizations that provide community-based overdose prevention services, including provision of naloxone to laypersons, recorded more than 26,000 opioid overdose reversals in the United States.
- In the first 8-weeks of 2017, the number of naloxone prescriptions written by physicians increased 340% compared to the same 8- week period in 2016. The number of physicians prescribing naloxone has also increased 475% over the same time period.
- When states enact laws to increase access to naloxone, there is โa 9 to 11% reduction in opioid-related deaths.โ
- More than 1,200 law enforcement programs in the United States now supply naloxone to their personnelโ resulting in thousands of lives saved.
Treatment
2017 National Survey
on Drug Use & Health
- An estimated 20.7 million people aged 12 or older needed substance use treatment
- This translates to about 1 in 12 people needing treatment
- Among young adults aged 18 to 25, however, about 1 in 7 needed treatment
Summary
- In this module, you were able to …
- Define psychoactive substances and substance abuse
- Understand that a child’s positive relationship with trusting and caring adults is they to successful emotional and social development
- Identify connections between L.E.A.D.’s Too Good curricula and positive behaviors
- Gain an understanding about common drugs and their humanistic effects on individuals and communities
- Understand the role of Narcan in combatting opioid overdose epidemic and understand the need for long-term treatment