Team Awareness Combating Overdoses’s philosophy focuses on the prevention of opioid overdose deaths through data-based education, overdose-response training and drug testing.
Vic Verbalaitis For the Arizona Daily Star Following in the footsteps of their parent nonprofit organization in Southern California, the University of Arizona’s chapter of Team Awareness Combating Overdoses — or TACO — is addressing the opioid epidemic through a preventative approach.
“As I’ve come into this organization, I realized that saying no doesn’t work all of the time,” Trotter said. Savannah Crowley, a public health major at UA and the vice president of TACO, noted the importance of using language that doesn’t contribute to the stigmatization surrounding drug use in order to make people feel more comfortable in asking for help.
The organization has also made strides in collaborating with other student groups on campus, including the Women in Medicine and Science club and the Psychedelic Medicine Radar newsletter. On Jan. 25, TACO gave a presentation about their mission to members of WIMS during a weekly meeting, where they explained statistics about fentanyl and the impact of the opioid epidemic on the college-aged population.
However, a hurdle TACO has faced has been in fundraising, an aspect of their organization they hope to improve in order to continue providing access to free testing strips for students and give back to the nonprofit parent chapter.
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