What Happens To Your Body During an Overdose?

If we ever experience an opioid overdose, does it always mean the end? What is happening inside our bodies?
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Free resources: https://www.narcan.com/static/NARCAN-Quick-Start-Guide.pdf
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/pdf/patients/preventing-an-opioid-overdose-tip-card-a.pdf
http://www.nchrc.org/programs-and-services/naloxone-101/
https://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/publications/intranasal-naloxone-and-opioid-overdose#publications_download
https://mountsinai.app.box.com/s/s4tzf6fv3vwo1v98uxxnyou6prv2ao2e
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/basas/naloxone-palm-card-eng.pdf
https://www.narcan.com/patients/how-to-use-narcan/
Other forms of administering Naloxone: https://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/naloxone
https://www.changingthenarrative.news/naloxone-resistant-fentanyl
https://www.changingthenarrative.news/naloxone

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Written by Michael Sago

Sources for this Life Noggin video:
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/data/statedeaths.html
https://hollywoodhealthandsociety.org/sites/default/files/attachments/page/Opioid%20epidemic_rev061319.pdf
https://www.hhs.gov/opioids/prevention/index.html
https://www.britannica.com/plant/opium-poppy
https://americanaddictioncenters.org/overdose
https://www.banyantreatmentcenter.com/2018/01/10/signs-of-drug-overdose/
https://www.narcan.com/patients/how-to-use-narcan/
https://www1.nyc.gov/assets/doh/downloads/pdf/basas/naloxone-palm-card-eng.pdf
https://www.drugpolicy.org/issues/naloxone
https://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm6423a2.htm
https://www.cdc.gov/drugoverdose/pdf/patients/preventing-an-opioid-overdose-tip-card-a.pdf