{"id":34971,"date":"2018-09-25T08:02:38","date_gmt":"2018-09-25T14:02:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=34971"},"modified":"2018-10-05T16:14:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-05T22:14:34","slug":"uccs-police-department-remind-students-of-good-samaritan-provision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=34971","title":{"rendered":"UCCS Police Department remind students of Good Samaritan Provision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FUCCSPolice%2Fvideos%2F1811139785588846%2F&amp;show_text=0&amp;width=560\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Students are urged to seek help if they experience an overdose involving alcohol, fentanyl or opioids in this week\u2019s Safety Tip Tuesday video featuring Lisa Dipzinski, sergeant, UCCS Police Department; Clyde the Mountain Lion Mascot and Eric Bronsky, emergency medical doctor, Penrose Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>An opioid is a pain reliever made from opium. Morphine and codeine are the two natural products of opium. Man-made versions of morphine produce other opioids like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Fentanyl (Duragesic)<\/li>\n<li>Heroin, a street drug<\/li>\n<li>Hydrocodone with acetaminophen (Lorcet, Lortab, Vicodin)<\/li>\n<li>Hydrocodone (Hysingla ER, Zohydro ER)<\/li>\n<li>Hydromorphone (Dilaudid, Exalgo)<\/li>\n<li>Methadone<\/li>\n<li>Oxycodone (OxyContin)<\/li>\n<li>Oxycodone with acetaminophen (Percocet)<\/li>\n<li>Oxycodone with aspirin (Percodan)<\/li>\n<li>Meperidine (Demerol)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Overdosing on a prescription opiate is the exact same thing as overdosing on heroine or street fentanyl, Bronsky explains in the video.<\/p>\n<p>Students who are experiencing an overdose will show symptoms like lethargy, decreased respiratory drive, slow breathing and unresponsiveness.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe best thing is not to assume that somebody\u2019s just sleeping something off, if you see somebody that\u2019s passed out or not acting correctly, do what\u2019s right and get that person or yourself the help you need,\u201d Bronsky said.<\/p>\n<p>The university has a \u2018Good Samaritan Provision\u2019 stating:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Students who seek medical assistance for themselves or another person who is intoxicated due to alcohol or drugs will not be subject to university disciplinary action, except when it has been determined that another violation of university policy has occurred.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Per the Colorado Revised Statues (CRS): 18-1-711, a person is immune from arrest or prosecution when:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>The person reports in &#8220;good faith&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>The person remains at the scene of the event<\/li>\n<li>The person cooperates with law enforcement, AMR, and medical provider<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>\u201cIf you get them help, that is the most important thing to do,\u201d Dipzinski said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>Students are urged to seek help if they experience an overdose involving alcohol, fentanyl or opioids in this week\u2019s Safety Tip Tuesday video featuring Lisa Dipzinski, sergeant, UCCS Police Department; Clyde the Mountain Lion Mascot <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/?p=34971\" title=\"UCCS Police Department remind students of Good Samaritan Provision\">(More)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":34975,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1,49],"tags":[44,43],"class_list":["post-34971","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-all","category-campus-announcements","tag-administration-and-finance","tag-department-of-public-safety"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/STT-OD.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1mBpJ-963","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34971","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34971"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34971\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34978,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34971\/revisions\/34978"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34971"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34971"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communique.uccs.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34971"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}