No gun for teachers, but they can pack Narcan to save overdosing drug addict students.
Well, instead of taking a shot at an active shooter, they can administer one, if they hold still.
Should educators be able to give a lifesaving dose of Narcan to a student overdosing on opioids? Absolutely, say backers of a law tearing through the state legislature.
Two years ago, more than 3,600 high-school seniors reported that they’d tried heroin at least once in their lifetimes, and more than 4,500 said they used pain killers to get high. During the four years leading up to that state Healthy Youth Survey, about 300 young people aged 15 to 24 died of heroin- or opioid-related overdoses.
Despite these numbers, a group of vocal parents says Washington schools have not taken significant action on the prevention, or intervention, of opioid addiction.
At a legislative hearing in Olympia last month, several from the Northshore School District sought to change that by testifying in favor of a bill that would allow public schools and college dorms to stock and administer the anti-overdose medication Narcan.
“It’s rather a no-brainer,” said Corina Pfeil, a Northshore parent who helped push the proposal onto legislators’ agenda. She’d never considered the problem of opioids in school until touring Inglemoor High for her son in 2016 and learning that the private bathrooms there had been closed after a student was caught using in one.
“That really alarmed me,” Pfeil said. “Heroin in schools is truly scary, and no one is talking about it. A lot of parents are embarrassed and ashamed — it’s really that dirty little secret.”
ht/ jd hasty
The schools aren’t allowed to give an aspirin. Remember the kids who were expelled for bringing tylenol, motrin, aspirin, or even a plastic knife to school.
Very cute, school has to be a safe space for shooting up.
Needle exchange 3..2..1.
Abortion clinic in schools grade 6 – 12, parental permission not needed.
I have a friend here who is a paramedic with a fire department. He says he is having to give more and more Narcan just to bring the addict around and they just go and get high again.
Good, swift, kick in the ass, is STILL free… :hmmm:
They’d better be armed anyway. Druggies tend to wake up violent from Narcan stopped overdoses.
That’s OK so long as they don’t carry guns.
“3,600 high-school seniors reported that they’d tried heroin”.
Could this be the problem?
Naaaaawwwwww. Blame it on the NRA.
Isn’t part of a syringe called the barrel?
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Would a 50cc syringe be considered a “high capacity” syringe.
Quick, we must stage a protest with some dorky little snowflake, doesn’t wannta go to school, daddie will bail me out boy, protest, march and then pass a law that does not address the root of the problem.
Wholly underwear…we’ve gotta protect our phoney baloney jobs! _______________________________Governor Lepetomane
Western WA is such a leftist shithole.
Clayusmcret is correct, the overdosing addict will come up swinging and cussing like a badger on meth that just had its nuts squeezed. Might want to handcuff the precious overdosing snowflake first.
I’m thinking this would be a prime time to let Darwin’s theory to run it’s course. Mabey have a senior field trip to see the dead junkies piled up like cordwood.
Just tell them they are free to choose for themselves but society is done with the free ride.
Why?
Seriously … what’s the fukkin point?
I used to take drugs (yeah, a little too much disclosure) but I took them because I *WANTED* to take them. I stopped taking them because I *WANTED* to stop taking them. See how that worked? It’s called “Liberty.” It’s called “Freedom.” It’s also called “Stupid” – but that’s beside the point.
I knew (attended High School with) a guy who got so burned out he lived in the woods (growling and muttering to himself) by 210 (Indian Head Highway) til he got hit by a truck.
I knew (loosely acquainted) another guy (called “Snooky”) who was “addicted” to alcohol and directed traffic in Suitland until he, too, got hit by a truck (I believe).
Would either of them have been happy locked in a rubber room?
izlamo delenda est …
How about three strikes and you’re dead? Some people have been “revived” over 20 times. What incentive does that give them to get clean? Who pays for the narcan? (We do.)
Harsh, yes, but my experience has been if they don’t want to stop, and too often they just don’t want to, they’ll stop when it kills them and not before, and you can’t do a damn thing about it.