Alaska Department of Health Course: Fentanyl Facts and Overdose Risk
Welcome to our course on Fentanyl Facts and Increased Overdose Risk. This course was developed by the Addiction Policy Forum in partnership with the Alaska Department of Health and JCOIN to share facts about fentanyl in the U.S., increasing overdose risk, resources for communities, and myths and misconceptions. The course takes approximately 20 minutes to complete.
- Understand facts about fentanyl in the U.S.
- Recognize the increasing overdose risk.
- Learn resources for communities.
- Understand that fentanyl is a synthetic opioid, 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine.
- Understand that synthetic opioids are now the most common drugs involved in drug overdoses in the United States.
- Gain awareness of the prevalence of counterfeit pills laced with heroin, made to look like oxycodone, hydrocodone, and alprazolam.
- General Public
This course is sponsored by the Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network (JCOIN), an initiative funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA).
Addiction Policy Forum & the Alaska Department of Health. (2025). Alaska Department of Health Course: Fentanyl Facts and Overdose Risk. Justice Community Overdose Innovation Network Coordination and Translation Center. https://www.jcoinctc.org/courses/alaska-department-of-health-course-fentanyl-facts-and-overdose-risk/
