Due to some recent student drug overdoses, Los Angeles Unified School District will make naloxone available in 1,400 elementary, middle and high schools.
is effective at decreasing overdoses and death and will save lives," LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho said in a statement Thursday."We will do everything in our power to ensure that not another student in our community is a victim to the growing opioid epidemic. Keeping students safe and healthy remains our highest priority."
Los Angeles Unified School District is the second-largest education system in the nation with over 430,000 students., who died in a school bathroom after taking a pill containing fentanyl. Carvalho noted that the district would expand its parent outreach abilities and peer counseling along with a district-wide drug education campaign. "There is nothing better than a student peer to explain the consequences associated with fentanyl to other students," Carvalho added. The district will work with local