Training Video on Reversing Opioid Overdose in Dogs - Illinois Vet Med

Drug overdose is the leading cause of accidental death in the United States, and it’s not just killing people. Dogs that work with police and other agencies are being exposed to deadly drugs in the line of duty.
Veterinarians at the University of Illinois decided to take action after they learned that working dogs have become the latest victims of the opioid epidemic.
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Disclaimer: Residual drug powder may remain on the patient’s body, which can be absorbed through skin, inhalation, or mucous membrane exposure. As a precautionary measure, personnel responding to a suspected or known narcotic overdose should wear gloves. Wearing gloves, however, does not guarantee that the responder will not be exposed to residual drug powder.

[@filr]

who is the jackass that would thumbs down this?? really? all this video does is help animals that help us

[@meier259]

This is a fucking joke I wish a lethal overdose for every k9 and officer handler

[@gendoll5006]

Justward 13 - Probably just some loser cop-hater.

[@The420studios]

I've narcaned my small dog with the nasal thing twice and the injection twice worked perfectly

[@jemeow247lyou]

Why twice? How is your dog exposed 2 times?

[@Koseenanat]

@@jemeow247lyoushe probably does fentanyl herself it’s a hard drug to kick it’s the devil itself and has ruined our generation

[@brokenh8911]

Bless our working dogs and our police officers!!!!!!

[@geekinhard343]

Naloxone should be available for free all across the united states as it is in Canada. instead it is sold for ridiculously high prices. I mean why would we make something that can save so many peoples lives, then make it unaffordable to the common person who would actually need it.

[@keith_stancil]

Not sure who is charging in the US, but in Alabama, we can get it free at every pharmacy and even the state health organizations.

[@Koseenanat]

@@keith_stancilreally it’s not like that in California I got mine off of a not profit group on Instagram called end overdose still had to pay 10$ for shipping tho

[@doinksinthePM]

Their sense of smell is 60x ours. Not many millions x ours. They have millions more olfactory sensors. Not millions of times more. 5 million is 1/60th of 300 million. 60x is plenty, trust me. That having been said - nothing but respect, admiration and gratitude for our nation's hero dog's and all service animals in general. We rely upon them taking the risks or doing the real olfactory detective work so much it's nuts - as if dogs weren't just awesome enough already? They're like a gift from God, whose name spelt backwards is doG. Need I say more?

[@coreyanderson1457]

If something is that strong or potent, or potentially dangerous to humans or animals, they shouldn't be out there for anyone to get! No drug that strong should even exist in my opinion.

[@epatterson2275]

U dont even know what your talking about!

[@coreyanderson1457]

@@epatterson2275 Okay...

[@toxic_city]

I don't think strong opioids should exist either & as a former addict I wish they never did but unfortunately they are a necessary evil as they DO have a purpose in the World. They aid for pain relief for terminally ill, severely injured or chronic pain patients & patients with high opioid tolerances after they've taken morphine & other opioid drugs for a long time & they stop working like they should but these synthetic drugs that are like hundreds of times stronger than morphine? That's just insane to me but a chemist somewhere developed these & people are getting rich, especially big pharma & there's nothing we can do about it & No, People should NOT be irresponsible & leave their drugs in the reach of children or pets but accidents do happen so it's good to have this information for just in case.

[@colbygrier7349]

I just watched someone bring a chihuhua Back to life via naloxone

[@LucidwithLotti]

My friend just narcaned a baby pitbull puppy about ,10 weeks old and she came right out of it and was fine a few hours later back to running and playing after on the brink of death literally. So sad.

[@toxic_city]

@@LucidwithLotti Was it intranasal Naloxone that he used?I was curious if it would work. & if it didn't, & a person had no access to an intramuscular one, could they try one of the intranasal ones maybe orally or anally? I saw a juvenile dog after he got into some Molly (MDMA, ecstasy) at a rave about 10 years ago & it was really awful. He was poisoned & there's no reversing that. He was running around like crazy, puking, rolling around,pacing back & forth, shivering almost, panting, whimpering, abnormally thirsty, wide eyed & just acting erratic, ect... He was seemingly very confused & very uncomfortable. Nobody had really had any access to a vet at the time. It was a party way out away from anything & it was like 3AM & everyone was so impaired so the owners gave him lots of water & waited it out & he finally came out of it some hours later. If that would have been opioids though & nobody had any Naloxone the dog would just be dead & that's a terrifying thought so I wonder if the intranasal stuff would take effect on a canine.

[@Koseenanat]

@@toxic_city same thing happened to our dog 2 years ago we let him go potty at a gas station for a minute I told my girl it was a dirty area but when we got back home he started acting the same way we think it was meth all watch barking at walls pacing breathing fast heart pounding it was the scariest thing ever we took him to the vet and they took all my money and didn’t do a thing just held him for 2 hrs must have been terrified and when they brought him out he ran straight into my car door I asked will he die he responded idk pieces of shit we knew better than them what had happened I told them to give him light sedatives to calm him down and they gave us some pills for seizure when I checked the next day anyways we were scared he would stay like this forever or cause brain damage and he would stay like this but he was ok the next day after he slept

[@jazzyjay1595]

How much Naloxone would you give the dog per pound body weight... The same dose as a human??

[@jonathan2real]

You do as many as it takes for them to wake up

[@jonathan2real]

There is no specific dose as long as it reversed. There’s no risk of overdosing off Narcan you can take as many as you need

[@kenyates-bd7hj]

get to the dam point already, geez