http://www.harmreduction.org/ http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=789 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=789 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=711 <div class="text blurb">Drug-induced and drug-related deaths have been increasing for the past decade throughout the United States (Cofin, P. et al, 2003). National data indicate that opioid misuse accounts for more psychoactive substance related deaths than all other drugs combined. Recent data indicate that the increases in opiod-related deaths are attributable primarily to prescription opioids (CDC, 2004). In 2004, there were an estimated 21,000 drug poisoning fatalities, a majority were opioid-related (Paulozzi 2007). In addition to the persistent tragedy of drug-related overdose fatalities, there are other drug-related outbreaks such as the most recent estimated 1,000 fentanyl-related deaths.</div> http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=711 http://www.harmreduction.org//downloads/North Carolina Naloxone 07.pdf <div class="text blurb">Project Lazarus is a pilot program in Wilkes County, NC for the prescription and distribution of intranasal naloxone (a drug that reverses respiratory depression that occurs from opioid overdoses) for the purpose of preventing death.</div> http://www.harmreduction.org//downloads/North Carolina Naloxone 07.pdf http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=529 <div class="text blurb">Brochures, posters, and other downloadable resources from HRC.</div> http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=529 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=480 <div class="text blurb">Una sobredosis ocurre cuando una cantidad toxico de una droga o combinación de droga agobia el cuerpo. La heroína y otros sedativas disminuyen la respiración, la presión de la sangre y el ritmo cardiaco. Reduce también la temperatura del cuerpo...</div> http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=480 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=206 <div class="text blurb">Overdose (OD) happens when you take too much of a drug (or a combination of drugs), and it overwhelms your body especially your brain and other important organs like your liver, heart, lungs and kidneys. When this happens your body looses the ability to cope with the drug: you may pass out, stop breathing, have heart failure or have seizures. All of these can kill you. But overdoses don't have to be fatal!</div> http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=206 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=75 <div class="text blurb">Downloadable curricula and PowerPoints for trainings. </div> http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=75 http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=441 <div class="text blurb">HRC's Overdose Projects in California, the Drug Overdose Prevention & Education (DOPE) Project, and New York, Skills and Knowledge on Overdose Prevention (SKOOP) Project, are models to communities addressing this epidemic. </div> http://www.harmreduction.org/article.php?id=441