BVCASA CONDUCTS OPIOID TRAINING

  

The Brazos Valley Council on Alcohol and Substance Abuse recently hosted an event concerning the nationwide opioid epidemic.

A total of 80 people attended the Opioid Training on June 27th at the Blinn Student Center in Bryan.

Co-founders of the Texas Overdose Naloxone Initiative, Mark Kinzly and Charles Thibodeaux, presented information on overdose prevention, education, and Naloxone access. They discussed the rise of the epidemic and reiterated what many agencies and organizations have said by calling it “The epidemic of our generation.”

Kinzly and Charles touched on various aspects of opioid use such as: risk factors for use, how to recognize an overdose, and how to treat an overdose by using different types of Naloxone.

They also discussed how opioids affect the brain and the duration of effects for different forms of the substances like heroin, codeine, and fentanyl.

The Health and Human Services Commission allocated $27.4 million to the state of Texas to help combat the opioid crisis.

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