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    The document discusses the opioid epidemic and how NARCAN can help save lives. It notes the large increases in heroin and opioid prescription drug abuse and overdose deaths between 2002-2014. NARCAN combined with behavioral therapy (known as Medication Assisted Treatment or MAT) provides a solution by reversing opioid overdoses. The document encourages legislators to fund education and access to NARCAN, educators to provide information, and friends/family to stop improperly sharing prescription medications which are a source for 55% of abused drugs.

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    The document discusses the opioid epidemic and how NARCAN can help save lives. It notes the large increases in heroin and opioid prescription drug abuse and overdose deaths between 2002-2014. NARCAN combined with behavioral therapy (known as Medication Assisted Treatment or MAT) provides a solution by reversing opioid overdoses. The document encourages legislators to fund education and access to NARCAN, educators to provide information, and friends/family to stop improperly sharing prescription medications which are a source for 55% of abused drugs.

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    The document discusses the opioid epidemic and how NARCAN can help save lives. It notes the large increases in heroin and opioid prescription drug abuse and overdose deaths between 2002-2014. NARCAN combined with behavioral therapy (known as Medication Assisted Treatment or MAT) provides a solution by reversing opioid overdoses. The document encourages legislators to fund education and access to NARCAN, educators to provide information, and friends/family to stop improperly sharing prescription medications which are a source for 55% of abused drugs.

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    NARCAN Can Save A Life

    The Problem

    The Solution

    Abuse of Heroin and Opioid Prescription Medications

    7.9 & 9 Rate of Opioid deaths per 100,000, in 2013, 14


    63% increase in Heroin use from 2002 to 2013

    Medication Assisted treatment (MAT) =


    NARCAN + Behavior Therapy

    26% Increase in heroin overdoses from 2013 -14

    NEED

    9% increase in drug overdose deaths from Opioids from 2013-14


    100% increase in drug overdose deaths
    45% proportion of heroin users who also abuse prescription opioid painkillers
    400%, 265%

    increase among women, compared to men who overdosed on prescription pain relievers between 1999 2010.

    Overdosed on Opioids, April 2016, Jane Hoback, Retrieved from http://www.ncsl.org/bookstore/state-legislatures-magazine/overdosed-on-opioids.aspx

    You Can Help Save A Life:


    If you are a legislator

    If you are an educator


    If you are family or friends -

    Stop Sharing - 55% of

    abused medications are received from a friend or relative (CDC, 2011) and

    Fight for funding of education and access

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