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Prevention Insights, housed within the Indiana University School of Public Health-Bloomington, provides free online overdose response training to many Indiana University (IU) students, faculty, and staff; as well as people from surrounding communities. The training—Citizen Opioid Responders (COR)—is an online program that seeks to reduce deaths from opioid overdoses by training citizen responders in these events so they can administer lifesaving naloxone/Narcan.
For Americans ages 18–45, the leading cause of death is fentanyl-involved overdose. COR is helping to change this statistic by providing communities with the knowledge and skills necessary to respond to an overdose. Research associate and Department of Applied Health Science doctoral student Cris Henderson served as a co-principal investigator on a previous National Institutes of Health (NIH)-funded study that developed and tested original versions of the program and showed positive outcomes for trainees.
The project has seen tremendous success over the last 18 months. In July 2024, COR received $23,500 from the IU Foundation Women’s Philanthropy Leadership Council to expand the program. Thanks to the grant, it is now available on five campuses—IU Bloomington, IU Columbus, IU Fort Wayne, IU Indianapolis, and IU Southeast. Since its implementation in the Indiana counties of Clark, Dearborn, Floyd, and Monroe, more than 400 Hoosiers completed the online training and are now carrying naloxone/Narcan. To learn more and sign up for the COR program, visit prevention.iu.edu/projects/stopoverdose.
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