The CARE Team is a group of professionals “who help connect students with solutions to challenges they face through resources both on and off campus.”
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“It was first understood as our main defense against opioid overdose,” Nguyen said. “The issue is that for some time, the FDA had not granted the approval of over-the-counter, non-prescription use of Naloxone because I think the standards for treating opioid overdoses were still being developed.”
Instead of seeing this story fade out of the Baylor community’s minds over the next couple of days, we need to understand that this tragedy is also a time for us to remember that this could affect anyone.
In 2019 alone, the number of casualties opioid overdose accounted for was seven times higher than the number of U.S. military service members killed in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars.