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Act to Save a Life

An overdose can quickly lead to a dangerous medical crisis or even death.
When every minute counts, you can ACT and potentially save a life.

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Fentanyl & Fake Pills

Drug dealers are pressing fentanyl into pills made to look like some prescription drugs. Protect your community by spreading awareness of the dangers of counterfeit pills. Someone can take a pill without knowing it contains a lethal dose of fentanyl.

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About Naloxone

Naloxone neutralizes opioids, reverses the possible fatal side effects, and helps someone breathe again.

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Know the Law

Laws protect you and empower you to save a life.

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Fentanyl & Fake Pills

Fentanyl is an extremely powerful synthetic opioid painkiller, up to 100 times more powerful than morphine, and can easily be fatal except when administered by a doctor or via prescription.

Prescription fentanyl is manufactured in extremely precise doses and its use is carefully monitored. Illicit fentanyl, on the street, is an unknown, even to the person mixing it. It is a case of trial and error – and the errors are very often fatal.

Fake prescription pills, widely available, increasingly lethal. DEA lab testing reveals that 4 out of every 10 pills with fentanyl contain a potentially lethal dose. Counterfeit pills often contain fentanyl and are more lethal than ever before.
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For more information, visit dea.gov/onepill

About Naloxone

Naloxone is a safe antidote to reverse an opioid overdose. It neutralizes the opioids, reverses the possible fatal side effects, and helps someone breathe again.

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What is Naloxone (Narcan)?

Drug overdose is the leading cause of unintentional injury or death in the United States, causing more deaths than motor vehicle crashes. Opioids – both prescription painkillers and heroin – are responsible for most of those deaths. Naloxone is a safe and legal antidote to reverse opioid overdose. It has few adverse effects, no potential for abuse, and can be rapidly administered through intramuscular injection or nasal spray.

Who Can Give Naloxone?

While most professional first responders and emergency departments are equipped with naloxone, emergency service providers may not arrive in time to revive overdose victims. Trained and equipped bystanders such as friends, family and other non-health care providers and drug users themselves can effectively respond and reverse an opioid overdose.

Naloxone Effects

Opioid overdoses result in the respiratory system slowing down to the point of not breathing – this usually takes time. With training and naloxone, lives may be saved!

Naloxone only works for opioid overdoses and will not help with a stimulant overdose or alcohol overdose. If a combination of drugs was used including an opioid, naloxone should be administered – it may help.

Naloxone has no psychoactive effects and does not present any potential for abuse. When administered in an overdose, opioid users may experience withdrawal symptoms until the naloxone wears off.

Know the Law:

Did you know that you’re protected under Florida law when you help someone who might have overdosed?

The 911 Good Samaritan Law says that a person acting in good faith who seeks medical assistance for an alcohol- or drug-related overdose may not be arrested, charged, prosecuted, or penalized for simple drug possession.

Opioid Overdose is Most Common When:

  • Tolerance is low after not using opioids (after jail or detox)
  • Drugs are mixed, especially with alcohol or Benzos.
  • Resistance is down due to sickness or other health issues
  • Using alone.
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