Synergy, Healing, and Empowerment

Insights from Cultural Diversity

Ebook

Guided by the concept of synergy, this groundbreaking collection explores alternatives in the areas of counseling, education, and community health and development. Synergy refers to the process of two or more things coming together to create a new, greater, and often-unexpected whole. When synergy exists, formerly scarce resources can expand and become renewable and accessible to all.Drawing upon the diverse cultural experiences of Aboriginal groups in North America and around the world, these compelling narratives provide practical insights into the emergence of synergy and obstacles to its existence. Synergy, Healing and Empowerment offers invaluable guidance in the pursuit of a just and equitable society.

Table of contents

Table of contents
Synergy, Healing, and Empowerment 1
Who should use this guide? 6
1. Equipping yourself for opioid emergencies 9
2. How to recognize an opioid emergency 45
3. Responding to opioid emergencies 50
4. Complications in opioid emergencies 81
5. Mixed overdoses: Opioids with other drugs 87
6. Opioid emergency cases 109
7. A primer on opioids, opioid use, and addiction 119
Abbreviations 132
About the author 133