Santa Clara County officials are shedding light on their plan to add the overdose-reversal medication Narcan to high schools county-wide.
officials are shedding light on their plan to add the overdose-reversal medication Narcan to high schools county-wide.
"It’s quite alarming. We’ve lost 11 young people age 10-to-19 in 2021 due to overdose," said Dr. Mary Ann Dewan, the Santa Clara County superintendent of schools.To combat the growing threat from opioids disguised as candy, which officials said continue to flood schools campuses, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors is earmarking $135,000 for the purchase of Narcan kits. Each of the county’s 65 high schools could receive one.
"The detective mentioned they suspect that there’s been a laced pill, that he was able to get and access. And that laced pill probably had a dosage of fentanyl," his father Jan Blom said in April. "The way that Narcan works is that it essentially when it enters the brain it takes off the binding of fentanyl to the opioid receptors in the brain," said Dr. Erin Woodhead, a substance abuse expert at San Jose State University. "And then body can resume normal functioning."
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