The county has approved $120,000 in funding that would go toward provding six area school districts with Narcan, the drug that reverses the effects of an opioid overdose.
, after the county Board of Supervisors unanimously approved a motion that would send the drug to six area districts.
The proposal was introduced earlier this week by the Third District's Supervisor Donald Wagner, and would allocate $120,000 from the district's discretionary funds to go towards $20,000 in Naloxone purchases for high schools in six area districts. "We must continue to be proactive and now is the time to get Narcan into as many hands as possible in our schools because it will save lives," Wagner said. "I hope to see this effort go beyond the Third District."Fentanyl-related overdoses have been the leading cause of death for people ages 18 to 45 in 2019 and 2020, according to the organization Families Against Fentanyl.
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