Overdose and Narcan Training

In this free community training, Amy Wheat, Opioid Outreach Specialist with Snohomish County Human Services, provides step-by-step instruction on how to recognize an opioid overdose and administer Narcan (naloxone) nasal spray – a medication that can reverse an overdose and save a life. Hosted by Stilly Valley Health Connections, this training is open to anyone in the community and is part of our free class recordings on health and prevention.

What’s covered in this training:

• What Narcan (naloxone) is, how it works, and why it only affects opioids – it has no effect on someone who is not experiencing an opioid overdose and cannot cause harm
• How to recognize the signs of an opioid overdose – pale or clammy skin, absent or infrequent breathing, blue lips or fingertips, and unresponsiveness to stimuli
• Step-by-step Narcan administration – when to call 911, how to position the person, how to administer both doses, and what to do while waiting for paramedics
• Fentanyl facts and myths – why it’s 80-100 times stronger than morphine, how it has entered nearly every street drug supply, and what fentanyl exposure actually does and does not do (including debunking widely shared misinformation)
• Washington State’s Good Samaritan Naloxone Law – the legal protections in place for anyone who administers Narcan or calls 911 during an overdose
• How to obtain Narcan at no cost – including free pickup through Stilly Valley Health Connections, free mail delivery anywhere in Washington state, and pharmacy and insurance options
• Overdose prevention at home – safe medication storage and disposal through drug takeback programs, plus local Snohomish County overdose data that may surprise you