Adolescents in Abitibi-Ouest are currently receiving training to intervene in overdose situations. The street worker for Groupe IO, Catherine Daigle, goes to classes with a respiratory therapist.
Students were able to receive, on a voluntary basis, a naloxone kit, a medication used to temporarily reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.
Our adolescents, our young adults, may be in contact with people who use substances. Whether it’s our grandmother who has chronic pain, whether it’s an uncle who uses opioids precisely as a result of pain or our young people who party
lists the street worker.
The workshop of approximately 1 hour is given in December at the Polyno student city and at the Return to La Sarre general training center.
The street worker for the IO Group, Catherine Daigle, emphasizes that the population can obtain naloxone in pharmacies.
- / Emily Blais
A cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) component is part of the workshop to prepare young people to deal with different situations, including an alcohol overdose.
Catherine Daigle considers that naloxone should be part of first aid kits. It should just be a tool that everyone sees favorably on.
she said.
She recalls that several substances are contaminated with opioids. We do detection in street work with small strips and we can find from one to eleven substances in a single product. So, the opioid crisis is still present because unfortunately, they are still prescribed
she laments.
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