Category: narcan

Los Angeles Schools to Provide Overdose Antidote After Recent Teen Death

LOS ANGELES—Responding to recent fentanyl overdoses by students, including the death of a 15-year-old girl in a Hollywood school bathroom, the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) announced Sept. 22 the anti-overdose medication Narcan will be available at all of its campuses by mid-October. Doses of Narcan, or naloxone, will also be provided to all…


New Law Requiring Narcan in Rehab Facilities Partially Penned by San Diego DA Office

SAN DIEGO (CNS) – Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law Oct. 4 a bill, supported by San Diego County District Attorney Summer Stephan, that will require licensed alcohol and drug residential treatment facilities to maintain, on premises, at least two doses of naloxone or a similar drug approved for the treatment of an opioid overdose….