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Wellness & Well-being Highlights December 19

Work life balance

Wellness & Well-being Highlights

for the

Week of December 11, 2022

 

This week’s edition of our Worker Wellness & Well-being blog consists of topics from the importance of Narcan to avoiding holiday heart attacks to the connection between stress & social media. Today, I wish to highlight the articles pertaining to opioid overdoses and Narcan. This blog has long emphasized the devastation that opioids has had on our workers, their families, and our communities: urban, suburban, and rural. We can NO longer idly stand on the sidelines and hope this crisis passes due to time. People from ALL walks of life have lost family members and friends to opioid poisoning; beginning in the 1990s it was prescription pain pills, then heroin, and more recently, fentanyl. Public health officials often cite a three-pronged approach to attacking substance misuse: prevention, intervention, and postvention. Narcan focuses on the intervention piece of this public health puzzle. Most of us have taken courses in First Aid, CPR, and (possibly) AED. These tried-and-true practices are known to save lives in the workplace. In the same manner, each and every one of us can be trained in less than 1 hour on how to safely administer Narcan (naloxone nasal spray). I, for one, know firsthand that Narcan saves lives!

 

Source:

https://www.stltoday.com/news/local/columns/tony-messenger/messenger-st-louis-man-who-saved-overdose-victim-pushes-airline-to-carry-narcan/article_54ced5c1-9d10-5867-9101-979b08e9bc3e.html

 

Fentanyl ODs

Opioids ODs and Life-saving meds

OTC Narcan?

NARCAN Training

FL officer ODs

First responders / PTSD / Ketamine

Connection & Support: Key to breaking addiction cycle

Another Opioids Settlement

Overhauling US drug policy

Pain (1)

Pain (2)

Pain (3)

Gun violence & Children

Kids & Social Media

Vaccine Fatigue?

The COVID time warp

Pandemic / Kids / Brains

Holidays & Loneliness

Holidays & Heart Attacks (1)

Holidays & Heart Attacks (2)Men & Therapy

Men / India / Suicide

Aging & Homelessness

Grief / Hope / Holidays

Grief: How to help

Stretching before a workout?

Mindfulness & Work

Women / Stress / Social Media

Cure for a holiday hangover?

Cold water therapy?

CTE Warrior: Life after NFL

H2H: Construction industry pushes safety helmets vs hard hats

Worker shortage / Migrants / Jobs

World Cup & Migrant Workers

St. Mary’s High School: Community steps up

Student loan forgiveness: Update

 

NOTE: The links provided above are for informational purposes only. None of these serve as a substitute for medical advice one should obtain from his/her own primary care physician and/or mental health professional. Please contact johngaal@moaflcio.org with related questions or comments.

 

 

December 19, 2022/by Braxton Payne
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