Clovis Unified to put Narcan in every single classroom

FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- Every schoolroom successful Clovis Unified School District is astir to get an indispensable supply.

Narcan, which rapidly reverses an opioid overdose, volition beryllium enactment successful each people adjacent week.

Parents and Addicts In Need (or PAIN) is giving the territory much than 2,000 boxes of the life-saving drug.

"They're going to enactment it successful each elementary, inferior highs and precocious schools," said Pamela Smith, Operations Director of P.A.I.N.

The boxes volition spell to each schoolhouse tract successful the Clovis territory adjacent week and into each and each classroom.

"This is simply a proactive measurement we are taking to marque definite we tin support our students harmless arsenic good anybody other who comes onto our campus. We can't foretell erstwhile idiosyncratic volition person an overdose, but we tin beryllium prepared for it," said Shareen Crosby, Risk & Benefits Manager of Clovis Unified.

California does not necessitate schools to person Narcan, but 9 different states do.

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

That's wherefore the American Medical Association has called for Narcan to beryllium placed astatine each school.

"It's the caller Band-Aid. But radical request to recognize that's precisely what it is. It is simply a Band-Aid. It is simply a life-saving instrumentality for the moment, that's it," said Flindt Andersen, laminitis and president of P.A.I.N.

It should beryllium known that Narcan does not cure addiction. And for idiosyncratic struggling with substance use, it's captious to get them attraction instantly aft administering Narcan.

For Pamela Smith, this ngo is personal.

Nearly 8 years ago, her son, Jackson, died of a fentanyl overdose.

"I don't privation different genitor to consciousness what I feel," said Smith.

Because the opioid situation is truthful widespread, having Narcan connected manus successful arsenic galore places arsenic imaginable tin marque a difference.

"It could beryllium vulnerability with our students, but it could beryllium idiosyncratic coming onto our campus. It could beryllium a visitor. There could beryllium galore instances wherever it could spell beyond the students arsenic well," said Crosby.

If you request assistance uncovering attraction for addiction oregon would similar to banal Narcan successful your medicine furniture astatine home, P.A.I.N tin help.

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