Since 2022, emergency crews responded more than 100 times to Marion County schools for suspected overdoses, yet only one school in the county reported using Narcan during that same time. KaraKenney6 investigates why schools may be hesitant to use it.
INDIANAPOLIS— Very few Indiana schools have reported they’ve used Narcan, this despite dozens of emergency runs to schools because of possible overdoses, WRTV Investigates has learned.
“We were in the process of doing the training, but COVID. Without a doubt through that three-year period slowed everything down,” said Dr. Butts. “There was a downside before when you're talking about cost and liability, but we've come so far the past few years. None of those exist anymore." “Each time one of these naloxone gets used, it really does save a life," said Cameron McNeely, director of Youth Education at Overdose Lifeline. “It’s finally getting to the point where unfortunately a lot of schools don’t have the option anymore. They need to bring something in like this.”
“It seems like there's a lot of hesitancy in the schools that have been trained to even use it,” said McNeely. “It's a pretty serious accusation of that young person — we think you're under the influence of opioids and having an overdose, so we're going to give you this Narcan."“A lot of the substance use may be going on at home versus the school,” said McNeely.
SCHOOL EMPLOYEE: Avon High School. We have a student that says she took a bunch of pills. She is not sure what she took.SCHOOL EMPLOYEE: She's awake and answering questions. She had the pills in an Aleve bottle. I have Narcan on hand. I haven't given her any. She wasn't sure what she took.OPERATOR: Is she breathing normally?
“I think the next step after that would be to educate the public about what naloxone is, that it's OK to use it,” said McNeely. “It's OK to have it around."
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