BY MAIRE O’NEILL
maire@losalamosreporter.com

In recognition of Fentanyl Awareness Day, the Los Alamos Reporter is re-publishing the link to a presentation given in May 2023 on Harm Reduction Overdose Response Training by Pauly Maldonado, Harm Reduction Substance Use Coordinator for the Public Health Division of the New Mexico Department of Health.

The training includes information on:

Reasons why people use substances
Causes of overdoses
Harm reduction Strategies
What Narcan is used for
How to recognize an overdose and how to respond
Symptoms of other types of substance and
Myths and facts about overdose and Fentanyl

The training may be viewed at:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bc80-_kgB9OAAmya5QD_GgxjqqzoxuZN/view