Fentanyl Harm Reduction for Families with Nicole Miller - Ep 62

In this week’s Safe Home Podcast, Beth talks with Nicole Miller, a certified drug and alcohol counselor and coach from Oregon who teaches addiction pharmacology at Portland Community College. Even though she’s very knowledgeable about all kinds of drugs, I brought her onto Safe Home Podcast to help us focus on fentanyl. It’s such a dangerous drug, and deaths from fentanyl poisoning have skyrocketed in just the last 2 or 3 years. Our family really wants to raise awareness about fentanyl, so Nicole will help us all understand the risks and what we can all do to prevent deaths caused by fentanyl. This episode is dedicated to the memory of Helanna Johnson, our life coach Heather Ross’s daughter who died in December 2021 from fentanyl poisoning. =============== 💌 Sign up for our Safe Home Families email list: =============== RESOURCES: Nicole’s information: Email: nic.triplett@gmail.com Other resources about fentanyl: CDC: National Harm Reduction Coalition: Fentanyl test strips from Amazon: Narcan (available without a prescription at US pharmacies): =============== Other Resources: Other Parents Like Me - Heather Ross - Life Coaching for Parents of Addicted Teens: Find a Tele-Therapist: =============== =============== TIME STAMPS: 2:08 Nicole’s personal journey with addiction and recovery 3:14 Safe Home lifts up harm reduction 4:40 What is fentanyl? 8:33 What forms does fentanyl come in? How does it get mixed in with other drugs? 9:55 Having Naloxone/Narcan available to save lives, but never use substances alone 10:45 Fentanyl test strips 13:20 How fentanyl makes people feel 14:30 The dangers of fentanyl with experimental use of substances 16:30 Beth’s challenges getting Narcan from the pharmacy 19:41 Encouraging our loved ones to carry Narcan with them 20:24 Meeting addicted people where they’re at; facing reality and encouraging harm reduction 23:51 How can Narcan - the Lazarus drug - works 27:12 Opiates, pain, and tolerance 28:50 How Medical Assisted Treatment (MAT) affects the rates of recovery 33:48 When to use Narcan, signs of an opiate overdose 36:35 Fentanyl could be in ANYTHING off the streets 38:02 How does Nicole stay grounded working in the addiction field 39:15 What Nicole’s recovery coaching looks like 40:50 All overdoses are accidental

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This episode was published on Oct 3, 2022.

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