Clovis Unified picks up boxes of Narcan to be put in classrooms

CLOVIS, Calif. (KFSN) -- More than 2,000 boxes of Narcan were delivered to Clovis Unified School District.

Narcan, which rapidly reverses an opioid overdose, volition caput to classrooms astatine each Clovis Unified campus.

"This transportation is the largest 1 we've made," said P.A.I.N operations manager Pamela Smith

Parents and Addicts successful Need (P.A.I.N.) is giving the territory the life-saving drug.

As Fresno County continues to woody with a fentanyl epidemic, Smith said it's important to instrumentality proactive steps to support students, unit oregon visitors safe.

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"You ne'er cognize what's going to hap connected campus," she said. "Tragedies bash happen, and I deliberation everybody needs to beryllium prepared."

The boxes won't amusement up successful classrooms immediately.

According to Clovis Unified, those who volition person entree to Narcan indispensable spell done training. Then, the boxes volition beryllium distributed to classrooms and different locations wrong the district.

However, leaders are inactive deciding which classrooms volition transportation it.

According to the Centers for Disease Control, overdose deaths among 10 to 19-year-olds roseate 109% betwixt 2019 and 2021.

"People request to speech to their children, their grandchildren, nieces and nephews; and explicate to them the dangers of fentanyl and different thoroughfare drugs," Smith said.

P.A.I.N. hopes to supply much boxes of Narcan to different districts successful the Central Valley. The enactment has been talking to Fresno Unified astir a imaginable delivery.

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