L.A. school district will provide overdose reversal drug naloxone to all campuses
Los Angeles public schools will stock campuses with the overdose reversal drug naloxone in the aftermath of a student’s death at Bernstein High School, putting the nation’s second-largest school system on the leading edge of a strategy increasingly favored by public health experts.
The medication “has a limited but highly effective way of reversing that condition, allowing individuals to restore breathing,” said L.A. schools Supt. Alberto Carvalho, adding that this “safe solution” lasts 30 to 90 minutes, providing first responders and medical professionals the opportunity to care for a student.The state and L.A. County have worked hard to make Naloxone more widely available. One of the hurdles, though, has been the price of the inhalable version, Narcan.
K-12 schools to provide and administer naloxone, but does not require it. Michigan has adopted similar rules.to have naloxone, and it can be administered by “any trained nurse-teacher” without fear of liability. School employees also can decline to administerof naloxone to every high school, but they don’t have to accept it. Currently, New York City schools do not have a policy to keep it in stock, a district spokesman said.
In L.A. County, the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District recently had a local physician train all the district’s registered nurses on how to administer naloxone and it is available to them at that district’s high schools, said Supt. Alexander Cherniss. The county health department is providing naloxone at no cost to the district, which also is receiving support in this effort from the Los Angeles Trust for Children’s Health and Children’s Hospital Los Angeles.
But she said parents need to keep in mind what she called an “explosion” in the level of risk, noting that law enforcement reported an increase in the number of illegal opioid pills seized from 300,000 in 2018 to about 10 million in 2021.
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