HEI: The Fentanyl Crisis: Safety Strategies in the Age of Drug Adulteration

    Tuesday, October 4, 2022 at 12:00 PM until 1:00 PMEastern Daylight Time UTC -04:00



    Join us on Tuesday, Oct 4 at Noon (EDT) as the Global Center for Healthcare Education presents a virtual presentation on "The Fentanyl Crisis: Safety Strategies in the Age of Drug Adulteration," in partnership with BirdieLight. 

    Did you know that within a twelve-month period during 2021, over 104,000 people died from a drug-related fatality, with over 75% of those deaths due to fentanyl, a synthetic opioid increasingly found in all drugs in the American illicit drug market?

    BirdieLight is an organization dedicated to saving lives by educating young people about the danger of unintentional fentanyl ingestion, and by empowering them with tools to detect fentanyl before they ingest.

    Key Learning Objectives: 

    • Participants will become familiar with the synthetic opioid fentanyl, the adulteration of the U.S. drug supply, and drug-testing tools. 
    • Discuss the impact of lives lost to fentanyl poisoning, and the response from federal and state governments. 
    • Identify at-risk populations and new data on the opioid crisis, particularly the catastrophic increase in fentanyl-related fatalities from 2018-2022.
    Explore community resources and harm-reduction networks able to serve young people at risk for fentanyl poisoning.




     

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