By the end of the month, all Philadelphia-based Penn School of Dental Medicine students will be trained to administer Narcan, a medication designed to reverse opioid overdoses, according to The Daily Pennsylvanian.
Five notes:
1. The dental school launched the program back in September 2017. Approximately 170 students attended the various sessions, which will wrap up the last week of January.
2. Penn Dental created the program to combat the rising opioid epidemic within the state. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health estimated more than 1,200 overdose deaths occurred in 2017.
3. During the training sessions, students were taught how to administer Narcan bypushing the device at the bottom, which releases a pre-measured amount of liquid into the patient's nostril.
4. Students were also instructed on preventing addiction in patients by not overprescribing narcotics. "If you can avoid giving the pills, it prevents them first from getting into the illegal drug supply and second, it prevents people from becoming addicted," Mark Wolf, the university's dental school dean, told The Daily Pennsylvanian.
5. After all the students complete the training, the dental school's faculty will begin Narcan training.
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Five notes:
1. The dental school launched the program back in September 2017. Approximately 170 students attended the various sessions, which will wrap up the last week of January.
2. Penn Dental created the program to combat the rising opioid epidemic within the state. The Philadelphia Department of Public Health estimated more than 1,200 overdose deaths occurred in 2017.
3. During the training sessions, students were taught how to administer Narcan bypushing the device at the bottom, which releases a pre-measured amount of liquid into the patient's nostril.
4. Students were also instructed on preventing addiction in patients by not overprescribing narcotics. "If you can avoid giving the pills, it prevents them first from getting into the illegal drug supply and second, it prevents people from becoming addicted," Mark Wolf, the university's dental school dean, told The Daily Pennsylvanian.
5. After all the students complete the training, the dental school's faculty will begin Narcan training.
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