Alaska Department of Health Course: Fentanyl Facts and Overdose Risk

• Understand facts about fentanyl in the U.S.
• Recognize the increasing overdose risk.
• Learn resources for communities.

• Understand that fentanyl is a synthetic opioid, 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine.
• Understand that synthetic opioids are now the most common drugs involved in drug overdoses in the United States.
• Gain awareness of the prevalence of counterfeit pills laced with heroin, made to look like oxycodone, hydrocodone, and alprazolam.

• General Public

This course is sponsored by the Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network (JCOIN), an initiative funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).

Fentanyl, Overdose, Overdose Risk, Counterfeit Pills, Evidence-based Practices, Criminal Justice, Addiction Policy Forum, Alaska Department of Health