{"id":568472,"date":"2023-04-02T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/how-schools-can-help-combat-the-rise-in-teen-overdose-deaths\/"},"modified":"2023-04-02T15:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T12:00:00","slug":"how-schools-can-help-combat-the-rise-in-teen-overdose-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/how-schools-can-help-combat-the-rise-in-teen-overdose-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"#How schools can help combat the rise in teen overdose deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2023\/01\/narcan_naloxone_OTC_0117_ap-e1673995964798.jpeg?w=900\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Schools are introducing new measures and drug prevention organizations are adding to their curricula to combat a disturbing rise in teen overdose deaths.<\/p>\n<p>Drug use among high school students is in a historic decline, but the particular substances teenagers are consuming are becoming more dangerous, including some laced with fentanyl.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr1_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Fatal overdoses among teens have doubled over the last three years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think that teachers \u2014 that all elementary, middle, high school and college professors \u2014 they have a responsibility to understand the environment now that we\u2019re in,\u201d Community Anti-Drug Coalitions of America President and CEO Barrye L. Price said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Only a tiny amount of fentanyl is needed to kill a person, especially someone younger and inexperienced with drugs. Most teenagers who overdose on fentanyl likely did not know it was in the drug they were taking.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Among those aged 15 to 19, drug and alcohol deaths went from 788 in 2018 to 1,755 in 2021, according to data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention tabulated by The Hill.<\/p>\n<p>Teachers \u201cneed to understand that kids might be experimenting with drugs, that they may \u2013 I mean, you\u2019ll find marijuana even, laced with fentanyl. That they may be experimenting or a kid may have taken a pill that somebody else bought for their mind,\u201d said Price, a retired Army <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/general\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"3\" title=\"General\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">general<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI know many parents who had children who died of somebody saying, \u2018Hey, this is a study drug. This will help you to focus,\u2019 you know, Adderall, and it was laced with fentanyl,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr2_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>In the fall of 2022, Los Angeles-area schools saw multiple teenagers overdose, with one 15-year-old girl dying at school. The police said the pills she took were likely laced with fentanyl.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Los Angeles Unified School District has taken several actions since the overdoses to combat the problem, including providing education and courses for students and families about fentanyl and substance abuse, increasing partnerships with community organizations and holding a press conference about the opioid crisis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>However, the two most important steps it took, according to advocates, were making Narcan available in every K-12 school and allowing students to carry the medication.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr3_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Narcan is used as a treatment for opioid overdoses that is easily administered and safe to use. Even if Narcan is given to someone falsely suspected to have overdosed, the medication will not hurt them.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are very lucky to have, in general, to have a drug like Narcan,\u201d National Institute on Drug Abuse Director Nora Volkow said. \u201cNo. 1, it is an extremely safe drug, and, No. 2, it is very effective in reversing an overdose from opioids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The push to get Narcan in schools is relatively new, as these types of overdoses weren\u2019t as regularly seen among teenagers before.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr4_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>\u201cThe possibility of carrying fentanyl, easily accessible in schools, was not an issue because overall teenagers don\u2019t seek out heroin, they don\u2019t seek out fentanyl. This is a relatively new perspective that has been brought up by the fact that pre<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">script<\/a>ion pills, these discounted pills, are now, over the pandemic, just expanded the access to these pills with fentanyl,\u201d Volkow said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMaking these Narcan drugs available \u2014 that is very good medication, very effective and very safe \u2014 makes a lot of sense. And so, which is why, to the extent that you make it available in schools, in various places, could be saving the life of someone,\u201d she added. \u201cSo this is the message that we want to pass: Make Narcan as widely available as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That goal just got a big boost after the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the first over-the-counter version of the drug.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr5_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Organizations that have long worked with schools on drug prevention have recently had to update their programs to include the new fentanyl trends.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Drug Abuse Resistance Education, more commonly known as D.A.R.E., has added a fentanyl \u201cenhancement lesson\u201d to its program in schools across the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve developed national lessons on vaping, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">social media<\/a> safety, bullying, fentanyl, so that it can be addressed in the same fashion that all the other topics are getting addressed without the students knowing that we\u2019ve transitioned to a new topic,\u201d said Frank Pegueros, D.A.R.E. America President and CEO.\u00a0<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr6_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Advocates raise concerns that conversations about drugs in schools are not done early enough or often enough, often treated as only an annual discussion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it can be a once-a-year assembly or a one time in a student\u2019s kindergarten through 12th grade curriculum. It needs to be presented as an initial topic and the initial intervention and followed up,\u201d Pegueros said.<\/p>\n<p>Jon Sundt, founder of Natural High, a youth drug prevention program, said that already \u201cthere\u2019s a ton that schools can do but they just don\u2019t do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"ad-unit ad-unit--mr7_ab\"><\/aside>\n<p>Sundt, who says he lost two brothers to addiction, said schools need to show videos that relate to the youth and have other young people come in to talk to students about drugs instead of the subject taught by \u201ca 60-year-old dude on a chalkboard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI think it\u2019s incumbent upon schools to apply the concepts all throughout the kid\u2019s junior high and high school career. Should probably start in fifth grade, maybe even fourth grade and go all the way through their senior year,\u201d Sundt said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t have to be a lot. It has to be consistent. It has to be engaging. It can\u2019t be like an assembly once a year. OK, that\u2019s pretty good. It\u2019s better than nothing. You can do better than that.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copyright 2023 Nexstar Media Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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