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Photo from Public Health Seattle & King County shows pills containing fentanyl that were sold on the streets of Seattle.
OLYMPIA, Wash. – The number of people who died from an overdose of illicit fentanyl increased nearly 70 percent this year over last in Washington state, health officials said Wednesday.
NARCAN SPRAY
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Narcan, that drug meant to help prevent an opioid overdose, is becoming more readily available.
Seattle police carry it. It’s available at CVS and Walgreens without a prescription. And now, it’s going to be available at thousands of public libraries and YMCAs nationwide.
Every day, 115 people in the U.S. die because of opioid overdoses.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — They huddled against the biting wind, pacing from one corner to another hoping to score heroin or pills. But a different drug was far more likely to be on offer outside the train station downtown, where homeless drug users live in tents pitched on the sidewalk.
“Everybody has meth around here — everybody,” said Sean, a 27-year-old heroin user who hangs out downtown and gave only his first name. “It’s the easiest to find.”
The scourge of crystal meth, with its exploding labs and ruinous effect on teeth and skin, has been all but forgotten amid national concern over the opioid crisis. But 12 years after Congress took aggressive action to curtail it, meth has returned with a vengeance.
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You know the difference early CPR and defibrillation can make in a Sudden Cardiac Arrest event. Fifty-seven percent of U.S. adults say they’ve had CPR training, and most would be willing to use CPR or an AED to help save a stranger’s life. Yet only 11% say they’ve used CPR in an actual emergency—that’s a number we can increase together.
When that emergency call comes in your team will be ready. But what if someone was already at the scene, applying lifesaving CPR and defibrillation until the EMS team arrived? With PulsePoint, your dispatch system immediately alerts CPR-trained bystanders about a nearby SCA event through the free PulsePoint Respond mobile app, and lets them know the location of the closest AED.
When CPR-trained bystanders receive an alert from PulsePoint Respond, it tells them not only where an SCA event is happening, but also where they can find the nearest AED. But often, data on AED locations can be missing, inaccurate, or simply not detailed enough to make the devices easy to find in an emergency. That’s where the PulsePoint AED app comes in.
With the free PulsePoint AED app, citizens can help even before a life is in danger, by easily identifying public access AEDs throughout your community. Users place the AED location on a map, add business and descriptor information and submit photos of the AED in context of its environment.
The Seattle Fire Department’s Medic II Program provides training classes in Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR) and choking techniques.
The training program is recognized as an international role model, which attracts people from around the world, who come to Seattle to learn more about how to implement their own CPR training programs.
Since Medic II was initiated in 1971, over 858,000 Seattle/King County residents have been trained and retrained in the lifesaving technique of CPR. Studies have shown that prompt bystander CPR more than doubles a patient’s chances of becoming a long-term survivor.
Classes are conducted by firefighters and community partners who teach on their own time and are compensated out of a donated budget. They train 10-12,000 Seattle/King County residents annually.
Medic II – CPR offers five kinds of classes:
Adult CPR class
Adult Renewal
Pediatric (Infant/Child) CPR class
AED/CPR class for groups that have purchased an AED (Automated External Defibrillator).
ESL/CPR class, which has a specially developed curriculum to meet the needs of ESL (English as a Second Language) students and the limited and non-English speaking populations.
The program was funded, in part, by United Way through the end of 2006. It is a donation-based organization which relies upon public support for its survival. Every dollar that is received goes directly into the training classes and not into staffing, overhead, office supplies, furniture or office equipment. However, over the years, our funding has been substantially reduced while our expenses have significantly increased.
This is where you can help us to keep moving forward with our vital mission. You may donate to the program in one of the following ways:
While taking one of the above classes.
Using the Fire Department’s secure, Online Donation Form (scroll down the form to the “Medic 2” section).
Mailing your tax deductible contribution. Please make your check out to Medic II – CPR and mail to:
Medic II – CPR
Seattle Fire Department
301 2nd Ave. S.
Seattle, WA 98104-2680
For CPR class information, please contact the
Medic II – CPR Office at (206) 684-7274
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