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Discovery Education's Operation Prevention PSA
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- Health Education
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- Jennifer Vedder
- Date Added:
- 12/20/2024
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This video explains how opioids affect the brain by slowing down pain signals through opioid receptors, mimicking the brain's natural endorphins. Over time, as a person like Susan continues taking opioids, her brain becomes tolerant, requiring higher doses for relief, which can lead to addiction and a challenging cycle of dependence.
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- Health Education
- Health/Physical Education
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- National Geographic
- Date Added:
- 12/20/2024
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Over the past two decades, opioid overdose deaths have risen significantly First, prescription opioids were the main culprit. While prescription opioid deaths have recently decreased, they saw a temporary increase in 2020. Heroin overdoses became more common starting in 2011 but declined in 2016. Finally, synthetic opioids like fentanyl caused a dramatic rise in overdose deaths beginning in 2014. Most of this fentanyl is illegally produced. It's important to note that a single overdose can involve multiple types of opioids, so simply adding up the deaths from each category might overestimate the total number of deaths in a given year (NIHCM, 2024).[https://infogram.com/nihcm]
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- Health Education
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- Jennifer Vedder
- Date Added:
- 12/20/2024
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The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) monitors and reports data on drug overdose deaths. Data can be used to inform drug overdose prevention programs or policies.
The Virginia Department of Health data can be used as a springboard for eliciting student conversations on opioid awareness in different regions of Virginia. As the data indicates, all areas of Virginia are impacted by drug overdose, although some areas are more impacted than others. Students in classrooms may have personal experience with addiction that may be personal, a friend, or a family member. Teachers need to be sensitive to how this instruction is approached in their classrooms and may need support from a school counselor or a health care expert.
Spend a moment exploring this overdose dashboard. Select the type of drug you wish to review data on, and the county you'd like to review, and compare what you find to other counties in Virginia.
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- Health Education
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- VDOE
- Date Added:
- 12/20/2024
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First Lady Suzanne S. Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares announced the launch of the Fentanyl Awareness Pilot Program at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute in Roanoke, VA. The first-of-its-kind, Virginia Department of Health awareness initiative is being implemented with support from the First Lady of Virginia and the Virginia Foundation for Healthy Youth (VFHY) in partnership with Attorney General Miyares’ ‘One Pill Can Kill’ campaign. The campaign strives to warn parents and caregivers that “It Only Takes One.” One bad decision. One counterfeit pill can cost a life. An average of five Virginians die from fentanyl poisoning every day, becoming the leading cause of unnatural death in the Commonwealth. Since 2019, deaths have more than doubled in the Roanoke region.
- Subject:
- Health Education
- Material Type:
- Visual Media
- Author:
- Jennifer Vedder
- Date Added:
- 12/20/2024