I want to tell you about the video that changed how I use my time.

In a thread of about 100 comments, 8 different people said something close to the same thing. Eight separate people. Eight separate families. One sentence.

They were not the same person. They were not connected. They had arrived at the same video from different places and left the same comment because it was the sentence that was true for them.

Eight families. One comment thread. The same unpreparedness.

I have seen both sides of this in 30 years. I treat the patients. I speak to the families in the waiting room afterward. I know what a family looks like when they knew there was nothing they could have done differently. And I know what a family looks like when they are not sure.

The eight families in that comment thread were the second kind. And what they needed was not therapy or grief counseling, though those things matter too. What they needed was information they could have had before. The kind that would have let them do something in those first few minutes.

That is why I built the guide. I was not going to keep posting videos without giving people somewhere to go when the video finished. A comment thread is not enough. A follow is not enough.

The guide is the three signs, what to do in the first four minutes, Narcan step-by-step, and how to stay on with 911. In plain language. Printable. Shareable. Free.

If someone in your life should have this, send it their way. That is the point of building it.