Dave Fialko: Narcan training

This guest speaker was so enlightening and really interesting because I honestly didn’t know a lot about Narcan, or as much as I’d like to know rather, before this session. It was really interesting to hear Fialko talk about telling the person you’re giving them Narcan before you do so. I had a gut feeling that you did that anyhow, but I didn’t realize that by telling them you’re giving them Narcan that it could elicit a response like what Fialko discussed. How by merely saying you’re going to give someone Narcan, they could respond just out of the pure feeling that they didn’t want Narcan.

I also find it interesting how expensive Narcan is. I started to think about whether or not something that is so valuable to saving human lives should be so expensive. In some cases, it almost traps people if there is no one around who can afford to keep it on hand. To have a short-term solution, but a solution nonetheless, so available yet so unavailable at the same time is rather shocking.

Brianna Cicero

Brianna is a senior journalism major at Temple University with a concentration on Editorial Management. She is currently a Content Strategist Intern and Editor-in-Chief for Odyssey, the Editorial Director of Temple's chapter of Spoon University and the Deputy Director of Parliament Communications for Temple Student Government. This past summer, Brianna worked for her local, hometown paper, LNP and LancasterOnline, covering events and issues important to the people of Lancaster County. She is also a 2016 alumna of The Fund For American Studies' Institute on Political Journalism where she covered the 2016 election in Washington D.C for a political startup, The Stream, as well as attended briefings at publications like The Washington Post. In addition, she has previously served as a contributor for BuzzFeed, was a staff reporter for Eastern University's newspaper, The Waltonian, and was the EditorinChief of Eastern's literary magazine, Inklings. Contact Brianna at [email protected] .