Several North Texas school districts are planning to add Narcan, an opioid overdose treatment, to campuses.
, and at least six other middle and high school students in the district have overdosed since September.after an apparent opioid overdose.
The district has two doses of Narcan on every elementary campus and eight doses on all secondary campuses.Dallas ISD is in the process of putting Narcan in schools, but that likely won't happen before mid-May, district officials said. In Arlington, school district health officials are researching the possibility of providing the treatment on campuses.
Frisco ISD already has Narcan on all campuses. Richardson ISD's school resource officers have the treatment, and the district is planning to add doses to every campus clinic by the end of the school year,All nurses in Fort Worth ISD will be trained in the fall on how to administer Narcan, and two nasal inhalers of Narcan will be available on all campuses.The City of Denton will receive about $25,000 a year for 18 years from Johnson & Johnson in an opioid settlement.
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