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| ACI inmates preparing to re-enter society learn how to help survive a drug overdose |
| By providencejournal.com- Lynn Arditi |
| Published: 08/07/2014 |
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CRANSTON, R.I. — Inside a cinderblock classroom at the Adult Correctional Institutions’ medium-security facility, a group of inmates who are nearing their release dates get a lesson about how to say alive on the outside. Their chances of dying from a bullet are nothing compared with the risk of a fatal drug overdose. The men are told how to recognize the signs of an overdose: Pale or bluish skin. Faint pulse. Slow or labored breathing. “They may sound like they’re snoring,” Rebecca McGlodrick, a volunteer instructor, says, but when someone is overdosing the noises mean they’re “struggling to take a breath.” Read More. |
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