Your Health and Life Matter: Build a Safety Plan Resource in Spanish

Posted 7/22/2020 (updated 3/28/2024)

Drug overdose is a serious public health concern and opioid-related overdose has increased as a health threat. A life-saving law took effect on April 1, 2006, making it legal in New York State for non-medical persons to administer Naloxone to another individual to prevent an opioid/heroin overdose from becoming fatal. All registered opioid overdose programs are furnished Naloxone (Narcan) by the NYSDOH. It is a prescription medicine that reverses an overdose by blocking heroin (or other opioids) in the brain for 30 to 90 minutes.

These resources that can be printed or attached to a website help spread the word. The are available in English and Spanish. Three different resources are attached below.