{"id":31272,"date":"2023-10-07T20:10:35","date_gmt":"2023-10-08T02:10:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/young-people-in-recovery-to-host-event-teaching-how-to-use-narcan-in-the-event-of-an-overdose\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T01:37:44","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T07:37:44","slug":"young-people-in-recovery-to-host-event-teaching-how-to-use-narcan-in-the-event-of-an-overdose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/young-people-in-recovery-to-host-event-teaching-how-to-use-narcan-in-the-event-of-an-overdose\/","title":{"rendered":"Young People in Recovery to host event teaching how to use Narcan in the event of an overdose"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=41aa981f-ed97-4482-852b-cdaa3282a3d2&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" alt=\"A Narcan nasal device which delivers naloxone lies on a counter as a health educator gives instructions on how to administer it in the Brooklyn borough of New York. On Wednesday, the U.S. government told doctors to consider prescribing the overdose antidote naloxone to many more patients who take opioid painkillers.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">A Narcan nasal device which delivers naloxone lies on a counter as a health educator gives instructions on how to administer it in the Brooklyn borough of New York. On Wednesday, the U.S. government told doctors to consider prescribing the overdose antidote naloxone to many more patients who take opioid painkillers.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Associated Press file<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, Oct. 11 from 10 a.m. to 11 a.m. and Saturday, Oct. 14 from 12:30 p.m. to 1:30 p.m., Young People in Recovery will host a harm reduction workshop to teach attendees how to identify and respond to an opioid overdose.<\/p>\n<p>The training will take place at St. Barnabas Episcopal Church on 110 W. North St. and will be led by Dante Downey, the organizer of the Cortez chapter of Young People in Recovery.<\/p>\n<p>He will be teaching how to recognize and respond to an opioid overdose with nasal naloxone. Naloxone, known by the brand name Narcan, reverses opioid overdoses by blocking the drug\u2019s effects on the body.<\/p>\n<p>According to the news release, Narcan \u201ccan restore normal breathing within two to three minutes in the person whose breathing has slowed or stopped as the result of an opioid overdose.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The training is free and open to the public, and attendees will receive a free Narcan kit at the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>is free to the public and teaches how to respond to an opioid overdose<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31273,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,60,29,2638],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-31272","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter","tag-opioids"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31272","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31272"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31272\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":81382,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31272\/revisions\/81382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31272"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31272"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31272"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=31272"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}