An online course offered by the American Federation of Teachers in collaboration with Harvard Medical School aims to help educators, nurses, social workers and school support personnel understand
Schools are among the places on the front lines of the public health crisis.
As death rates from opioids have risen, teachers and school administrators have assisted students in family crisis and students who鈥檝e faced their own addiction.
Schools are increasingly carrying units of the so that they can respond to emergencies.
It鈥檚 important for educators and nurses, who are both counted among AFT鈥檚 members, to respond to counter the stigma that sometimes prevents people from seeking help, AFT President Randi Weingarten says in a video introducing the course.
鈥淎rming people with science-based education about addicition is key to fighting this stigma,鈥� she says.
The course teaches viewers how to identify risk for addiction, recognize the signs of an overdose, administer naloxone, and support people in recovery.
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澳门跑狗论坛 reported previously on how schools respond when students鈥� families are struck by opioid addiction in this piece, which appeared on the PBS Newshour.