LAUSD will combat the opioid epidemic — after an OD killed a girl in a school bathroom — by distributing the antidote naloxone to schools.
Nine days after a teenage student died of an apparent overdose from a fentanyl-laced pill, Los Angeles Unified School District officials announced plans to combat the national opioid epidemic, including distributing naloxone nasal sprays – used to reverse an opioid overdose in an emergency – to schools over the coming weeks.
There are currently enough doses for the district’s high schools, which will receive the medication over the next two weeks, officials said. Additional doses will be distributed to middle and elementary campuses as they become available. L.A. Unified has approximately 1,400 schools. Los Angeles Unified School District School Board member Monica Garcia speaks during a news conference at Miguel Contreras Learning Complex in Los Angeles Thursday, September 22, 2022. The news conference was held to announce a plan to address the opioid epidemic and to mitigate the impacts of overdoses in school.
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