It is no secret that kids in High School try drugs and do drugs while in school. In order to prevent the death of a child some schools have decided to start stocking their Nurse’s office with an antidote to Heroin. Their logic behind this is that while there is no comprehensive data to how often students overdose while at school but according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2015, opioids killed 7,163 people between the ages of 15 and 29. When this bill was first brought into effect it was a sad sign of the times. Through the state’s program, New York schools can now receive two doses of generic intranasal naloxone in a little nylon bag for free. While some schools are still not getting the antidote because they do not see a need and parents are on the fences because they do not like what having an antidote such as this one says about the school. The potential amount  of lives this antidote would save is worth the negative image.

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/29/nyregion/in-naloxone-heroin-schools-room-overdose-antidote.html