BREAKING: All LAUSD schools to be provided with Narcan in the coming weeks after recent teen drug overdoses
Superintendent Alberto Carvalho says the district will also embark on a wide-spread education campaign aimed at parents, and a peer-to-peer campaign to raise awareness among students of the dangers of fentanyl.
The announcement comes amid the recent fentanyl overdoses by students, including the death of a 15-year-old girl in a Hollywood high school.DEVELOPING: We will add more details to this report as they become available. This week, we're dedicating a half hour of Eyewitness News to focus on the fentanyl crisis and to help you get answers.
We'll be joined by Carvalho, experts with the Los Angeles Drug Enforcement Agency and the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health along with a father who started a nonprofit after he lost his son to fentanyl.
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