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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^I agree with most of your points except giving narcan to every student. Narcan expires. But how about it be put in a lockbox  (near the fire extinguishers or AED machines) where everyone knows where to access it? Make it easy-access?[/quote]

They can give it to every student and I would assume some students would throw it away and yes it would expire so yeah put it in the hallways and put it in the bathrooms[/quote]

The fact that multiple people think this is a good idea is proof of our country is the hellscape they’re using drugs to escape from. Depressing as hell. Let me know it works the first time a teenage CHILD freezes and doesn’t get or forgets how to use the Narcan, or it isn’t there, or they panic and do it wrong or the kid is too far gone and dies anyway. Now a teenagers gets to feel like it’s their fault a peer died. None of this is ok. This is SCHOOL, not Kensington Rd in Philadelphia, god [/quote]

Take your head out of the sand, friend. Opioid overdose is a problem. The fact that it's in our schools is scary. We need to normalize narcan as a life saver, like we do with CPR. You seem to want to pretend it's not in our schools. It is and making narcan available seems like a good idea. If you wait for the paramedics, precious minutes go by and the brain continues to lose oxygen. [/quote]

You’re telling a teacher who has been posting all over this thread about how we are facing this every single day in schools to “take her head out of the sand.” Please. Narcan is normalized. We do NOT need to be making teenagers and kids individually responsible for saving the lives of their peers with it as  just a matter of attending school. You would be singing a very, very different tune the time YOUR kid was traumatized by having to do this or worse, not being able to in the moment and facing guilt because of it. [/quote]

ARe you speaking for yourself or as the teacher?

I never said kids should be ultimately responsible for administering the narcan but we do need to put it out, available, for all to know where to find it. The person describes some of us as contributing to the 'hellscape' - that's her term. I don't think the US is a hellscape but we are in an opioid crisis. We need to respond. As one poster said, it's in the public library. Put it in the schools with the AED and fire extinguisher? What is the problem with this? 
I speak to my kid, in rational terms, about drugs. And my kids have also had CPR and AED training since middle school. I believe some courses are now adding narcan adminstration to the training. 
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