BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 METHOD:PUBLISH PRODID:-//Telerik Inc.//Sitefinity CMS 14.4//EN BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:Central Standard Time BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231102T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=1SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=11 TZNAME:Central Standard Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0600 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20230301T020000 RRULE:FREQ=YEARLY;BYDAY=2SU;BYHOUR=2;BYMINUTE=0;BYMONTH=3 TZNAME:Central Daylight Time TZOFFSETFROM:-0600 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DESCRIPTION:Community Overdose Response and Recovery Effort (CORRE) is a UT MB-student led venture that wants to enable the Galveston community to pre vent opioid overdose deaths. CORRE is currently offering overdose assessme nt and naloxone administration training\n and developing a communicatio n platform for individuals in Galveston County to respond to and report ov erdoses. Participants will learn how to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose. Naloxone kits will be provided. \;Did you know?September 21 \, 2022\, is National Opioid Awareness Day More than 932\,000 people have died from a drug overdose since 1999\, with 107\,000 of those occurring be tween December 2020 and December 2021 Preliminary data for 2022 shows near ly 80% of drug overdose deaths involve an opioid Overdose is now the leadi ng cause of death in US adults aged 18-49 Four out of every 10 pills on ou r streets are contaminated with fentanyl and sold to unsuspecting victims Only 39 states are funded to report and provide data on all drug overdoses to the CDC\; Texas is considered a non-responder CDC wants to expand acce ss to naloxone with community distribution and overdose training programs How can you help? Be aware that most illegal drugs are contaminated with f entanyl Be aware that opioid overdose can be reversed with naloxone Get tr ained on Naloxone Administration Spread the word that Naloxone saves lives ! References Wide-ranging online data for epidemiologic research (WONDER). Atlanta\, GA: CDC\, National Center for Health Statistics\; 2021. Availab le at http://wonder.cdc.gov.\n Hedegaard H\, Miniñ\;o AM\, Spencer M R\, Warner M. Drug Overdose Deaths in the United States\, 1999&ndash\;2020 . National Center for Health Statistics\, December 2021. Centers for Disea se Control and Prevention. Drug Overdose Surveillance and Epidemiology (DO SE) System. Atlanta\, GA: US Department of Health and Human Services\, CDC \; [2022\, August\, 29]. Access at: https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/nonfa tal/dashboard DTEND:20220928T190000Z DTSTAMP:20240328T083539Z DTSTART:20220928T170000Z LOCATION:TX\,US\,Galveston\,301 11th St SEQUENCE:0 SUMMARY:Opioid Overdose Assessment and Response Training UID:RFCALITEM638471937394727539 X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:
Community Overdose Response and Recovery Effort (CORRE) is a UTM B-student led venture that wants to enable the Galveston community to prev ent opioid overdose deaths. CORRE is currently offering overdose assessmen t and naloxone administration training\n and developing a communication platform for individuals in Galveston County to respond to and report ove rdoses.
Participants will learn how to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose. Naloxone kits will be provided.
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