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‘It’s a no-brainer’: Rising adolescent overdoses prompt calls for school to stock naloxone

The rise in drug overdoses among teens has caused school nurses to request naloxone, a drug that counteracts the effects of an opioid overdose, for their campus medical supplies. Schools stock emergency equipment from fire extinguishers to defibrillators and now they’re seeing a need to supply naloxone, as well. Read more here.