The Red Cross First Aid for Opioid Overdoses
Are you ready to help your relatives and community members? Learn how to save a life!
Opioids are a class of drugs that includes both prescription medications and illegal drugs. Opioids are addictive, especially if misused, and can carry serious risks of overdose.
The Red Cross offers a fully online, self-paced training where you gain the skills to respond to a suspected opioid overdose emergency. Take First Aid for Opioid Overdoses and you will learn the signs of a suspected opioid overdose and the appropriate care to provide, including how to administer naloxone (a life-saving rescue medication that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose). Move through the course at your own pace, it takes about 45 minutes to complete.
Phoenix Indian Center can cover the registration fee so this training is at no cost to you, inquire through our interest form: Click here to access.
Safeguarding Medications 101
Safeguarding Medications 101 brings awareness to the harmful effects of prescription drug abuse. We’ll give parents, grandparents, and community members tips for preventing fatal overdoses. While medication is meant for healing, when in the wrong hands, it can lead to lifelong problems of substance abuse, addiction, and death. Join us at our workshops as we combat the prescription drug epidemic disproportionately impacting our American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal communities.
Safeguarding Medications 101 Facts
Did you know that 77% of American Indian youth in Maricopa County perceive little or no risk in abusing prescription drugs? Rx360 brings awareness to the harmful effects of prescription drugs, and gives parents and community members tips for preventing their misuse and abuse.
Do you have old medications that were prescribed to you for a surgery or broken bone, but you never took all of them? Are your prescription meds too easily accessible in your medicine cabinet at home? Rx360 brings awareness to the harmful effects of prescription drugs and gives parents and community members tips for preventing their misuse and abuse. While the medication is meant for healing, when in the wrong hands, it can lead to lifelong problems of substance abuse, addiction and death. Join us at our virtual workshop as we reclaim our American Indian and Alaska Native Tribal communities and combat the prescription drug epidemic.
