According to the Centers for Disease Control, synthetic opioids, like fentanyl, are the primary driver of overdose deaths in the United States and deaths are skyrocketing.
that you are enabling kids making it easier do drugs and there was another california school board that tried to get naloxone program going there, but the school board said there was no drug epidemic in high school. so what do you say to the parents that these measures will either contribute to the problem or they deny there is a problem in the firs fhe first place? we know overdoses are only going up and there is no community at this point that is unef faffected unaffected. while he would hope that no high schooler, junior high schooler or elementary school student ever overdoses, i can t ignore the reality that exposure to fentanyl is a possibility. and distributing naloxone, mine i m of the opinion that every household should have access to naloxone and other common sense overdose reversal agents because you never know when you might be affected by an overdose.
A new data brief published by the Michigan Department of Health and Human Services (MDHHS) shows a rising trend of opioid overdoses involving cocaine laced with fentanyl.