A heroin antidote could be coming to private and public high schools in Kentucky this fall.
Kentucky Office of Drug Control Policy Executive Director Van Ingram said it will be up to each Kentucky school district to decide whether to accept the free kits being offered by Adapt Pharma.
The pharmaceutical company announced earlier this year it would donate Narcan, a name brand of the opioid overdose antidote naloxone, to any high school in the nation that wants it.
Kentucky Department of Education spokeswoman Nancy Rodriguez says training on using the Narcan kits is tentatively scheduled for September at the department’s annual health coordinators’ seminar.
Source: AP
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