Overdose Prevention

(09-11-2023/ Mr. Larry Durant & Ms. Didre Johnson)

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- What is a Crackhead? A crackhead is dirty, frail, skinny, small, and aggressive

"Our perception of how people look is never the same"

- Your central nervous system controls everything. If you go to talk your brain controls what you say, if you want to walk your brain controls how fast or slow you walk. Everything leads back to your nervous system.

- A human brain stops developing at the age of 25

*Everything you intake can have a good or bad effect on your brain.*

- Xylazine: a combination of horse tranquilizers mixed with fentanyl

- When someone overdoses the "bring them back to life" medicine is called Narcan, it is like an Epipen that goes into your nose and cancels out the drug to bring them out of an overdose

- "Drug dealers are not medical providers"

* When taking or giving someone medicine you should be careful because there are multiple things that factor into borrowing medicine. A doctor prescribes medicine based on pain level, weight, height, and other medications factor into it also.*

* Fentanyl is meant to look like Skittles to make people think it is safe. *

- What does the central system do?

- Where is your central system located?