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DopaGE
DopaGE is a Los Angeles-area health education company that trains young adults to prevent, recognize, and respond to drug overdoses through gamified, neuroscience-informed online courses. Built by physicians, neuroscientists, and emergency medical personnel and grown out of the student non-profit T.A.C.O., DopaGE sells annual subscriptions to colleges and offers family training so students can learn life-saving skills - fentanyl awareness, naloxone use, and overdose response - in a format they actually want to complete.
Madeline Hilliard
Madeline Hilliard is the founder and CEO of DopaGE, a gamified overdose-prevention education platform built by physicians, neuroscientists, and video-game engineers for colleges and healthcare organizations. A USC computational-neuroscience graduate and Nationally Registered EMT who treated overdose patients in ambulances and ERs, she founded the nonprofit Team Awareness Combating Overdose (T.A.C.O.) in 2020 the same day a college friend died from a polysubstance overdose. T.A.C.O. now runs on roughly 300 student volunteers nationwide and is credited with saving lives in the four digits. She and co-founder Amanda Grennan were named to the 2023 Forbes 30 Under 30 list in Education.