Hundreds of thousands of high school students in Canada will be given training on how to respond to someone overdosing on opioids, including on how to administer naloxone -- a drug used to reverse the effects of overdoses.
The Advanced Coronary Treatment Foundation is announcing Tuesday that its new training program will be added to the CPR and automated external defibrillator training it offers for free in high schools across the country.
"The crisis is very real," Jocelyn Barriault, the medical director of the foundation, said in a recent interview. "Cardiac arrests, it doesn't happen to young people that much," Barriault said. "But with opioids, there's a lot of chance that it's a peer, that it happens at school or at a party." Barriault said the training, which was developed after a successful pilot project in Ottawa involving 186 students and 15 teachers in 2019, will be an opportunity to teach young people how to react in emergency situations and on the risks of opioids.
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