Fentanyl Awareness
for Colville Tribes
Fentanyl is being mixed into street drugs, causing a spike in drug overdose deaths on the Colville Reservation. Let's STOP this pandemic!
TAKE THE PLEDGE
The Fentanyl Awareness for Colville Tribes project encourages everyone to Take the Pledge against fentanyl and to join together in supporting a strong community that is drug free.
Our goal is to create awareness about the impact of fentanyl, to offer resources that support and educate our people, and use the strength of our community to saves lives.
Free From Fentanyl Pledge
If you or someone you know is actively using illegal or illicit drugs, remind them about the FACT Project and ask them to sign the Free From Fentanyl Pledge. Use the hashtag #FreeFromFentanyl on social media, share with your family, friends and community. Together, let’s pledge to end this pandemic.
What is Fentanyl?
Fentanyl is an extremely powerful synthetic opioid painkiller, up to 100 times more powerful than morphine, and can easily be fatal except when administered by a doctor or via prescription.
It is also made and used illegally. That’s when it gets dangerous. It's added to other drugs because of its extreme potency, which makes drugs cheaper, more powerful, more addictive, and more dangerous.
Fentanyl is
50x
Stronger than heroin.
Fentanyl is
100x
Stronger than morphine.
The DEA seized
15,000 lbs.
of fentanyl powder in 2021 — enough to kill every American.
Vicodin, Percocet, Xanax, Valium, Meth, Cocaine and Heroin might be laced with deadly Fentanyl.
Fentanyl now ranks Number 1 on the list of biggest killers of 18-to-45 year olds in the U.S.
The amount of fentanyl it takes to overdose and die is equivalent to 2 GRAINS OF SAND.
All You Need To Know
Frequently Asked Questions
The Fentanyl Awareness for Colville Tribes (FACT) Project is a collaboration to raise awareness about drugs laced with fentanyl. People are dying from overdoses at alarming rates, and many because the drug fentanyl is unknowingly mixed into illegal drugs that they are using on a recreational basis.
According to the CDC:
“Pharmaceutical fentanyl is a synthetic opioid pain reliever, approved for treating severe pain, typically advanced cancer pain. It is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. It is prescribed in the form of transdermal patches or lozenges and can be diverted for misuse and abuse in the United States.
However, most recent cases of fentanyl-related harm, overdose, and death in the U.S. are linked to illegally made fentanyl. It is sold through illegal drug markets for its heroin-like effect. It is often mixed with heroin and/or cocaine as a combination product—with or without the user’s knowledge—to increase its euphoric effects.”
LOCAL Treatment and Recovery Resources:
Tribal Behavioral Health Program is an Indian Health Services contract to the Confederated Tribes of the Colville Reservation for the delivery of mental health to Native Peoples and chemical dependency services to Native Peoples of Federally Recognized Tribes.
Nespelem Main Office (509) 634-2610
NATIONAL Treatment and Recovery Resources:
The most comprehensive collection of recovery resources is through FindTreatment.gov.
Recognizing the signs of an overdose can save a life. Here are some things to look for:
- Difficult to wake up
- Slow or weak breathing
- Pinpoint Pupils
- Falling asleep or losing consciousness
- choking or gurgling sounds
- Blue or pale lips and fingernails
- Confusion
If you notice these signs, call 911 immediately and give naloxone.
- Call 911 Immediately.*
- Administer naloxone, if available.**
- Try to keep the person awake and breathing.
- Lay the person on their side to prevent choking.
- Stay with the person until emergency assistance arrives.
*Most states have laws that may protect a person who is overdosing or the person who called for help from legal trouble.
** Naloxone is a life-saving medication that can reverse the effects of opioid overdose and save lives. It is available in all 50 states and can be purchased from a local pharmacy without a prescription in most states.
In WA State, Naloxone can be dispensed at pharmacies without prescriptions and can be provided to community-based organizations with the state wide standing order to dispense.
- Take the pledge
- Spread the word about the dangers of drugs that are potentially laced with fentanyl.
- Become an advocate
- Volunteer
Save A Life
- Call 911
- Carry Naloxone
This over-the-counter nasal spray can reverse an overdose.
- Test for Fentanyl
Test strips are inexpensive and typically give results within 5 minutes, which can be the difference between life or death.
- Good Samaritan Law
Don't be afraid to call 911 if you witness an overdose. Under Washington's Good Samaritan Law if you help someone who is overdosing, you and the person who is overdosing are protected from legal action.
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