Naloxone can be administered multiple ways. | Direct Relief
Naloxone can be administered multiple ways. | Direct Relief
Sonoran Prevention Works is getting ready for another year of providing training and raising awareness to prevent fatal overdoses.
According to the Arizona Department of Health Services, 269 people died in Pima County of drug overdoses in 2022, as reported Dec. 27, 2022, by KGUN9. As a result, Sonoran Prevention Works is planning to expand its training and education programs, including teaching participants about naloxone administration.
"We teach them how to identify an overdose and how to administer naloxone," Christopher Thomas, training and education manager at SPW, told KGUN9. "And going into 2023 we'll be expanding our training and education programs to have more trainings online."
Thomas said naloxone can be administered multiple ways, but students will learn how it is injected, according to KGUN9.
"We try to be very thorough so that way when people leave our trainings they feel comfortable using the injectable naloxone, because it's the cheapest one that we have," he said to KGUN9.
SPW staff member Kayla Kurti said she saw the effects of naloxone in person when she worked at a syringe exchange, KGUN9 reported.
"This guy knew that he had to get his friend to the syringe exchange because he knew we could help him," she explained, according to KGUN9. "Most of the people reversing overdoses are the people using drugs themselves."
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