overdose prevention

The University of New Mexico’s Project ECHO has connected professionals around New Mexico, and the world, to health education using virtual training for decades. But it’s now offering training to teach everyone in New Mexico how to respond to an opioid overdose and how to properly administer naloxone.

There are about 1.7 million opioid prescriptions written every year in New Mexico. The state still has a problem with opioid related deaths, but the…

Ads raising awareness about the overdose-reversing drug naloxone will be appearing on the sides of buses around Albuquerque. It’s available…