Until just recently I did not realize narcan was administered in the nose via a nasal spray. I was really thinking it was like that pulp fiction scene every time someone had to use it. I was talking about narcan with a police friend and he told me about this. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
Until just recently I did not realize narcan was administered in the nose via a nasal spray. I was really thinking it was like that pulp fiction scene every time someone had to use it. I was talking about narcan with a police friend and he told me about this. 🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️🤦‍♀️
I think that was an epi shot wasn't it? Thankfully we have advanced since then lol.
frlcb, yeah my kids will be going there in a few years. It was horrible
InBetweenDays, I think schools should be required to list drug offenses on campus. They don't need names or anything but I think we could get raw numbers. How many kids are showing up high/drunk, how many require medical attention, and how many times do we confiscate drugs or paraphernalia. That kind of thing. OR maybe I don'twant to know
I don’t want to know this. It will just add fuel to the “good” vs “bad” school argument. We know that some schools would figure out a way for their numbers to look better, and just like test scores, these numbers wouldn’t be reflective of the quality of a school. I will send my kids to school assuming that there will be drugs and alcohol present, and I need to do my best to prepare them for that.
As far as teachers having it, I have reservations, simply because of how combative many in our community have been towards teachers. I’d have to talk to more teacher friends to see how they’d feel, but I’d be surprised if they would want to carry it. Not because they wouldn’t want to help, but because they’d be afraid of getting sued/attacked if they found a student in the bathroom and weren’t carrying the Narcan on them at that exact moment…or some other ridiculous situation. And like PP said, some parents (generally those super loud, obnoxious vocal minority) have a view of who this could happen to…and it’s not their precious innocent baby. They’ll just scream that teachers are not doctors or nurses and should not be “conducting medical procedures” on kids (which is, if I recall correctly, what they called mandatory masks).
InBetweenDays I don’t know exactly what I’d like, but something versus the nothing we got? Not something personal or even incident related, but like you said, “heads up parents, this is a thing and it’s here”. Sort of like the elementary nurse sends us emails to tell us when a stomach bug is going around or RSV. We don’t get names or even classrooms, but she lets us know.
I know they do a D.A.R.E like program in 5th grade called START (I have a 5th grader). But I haven’t seen/heard anything at the middle school level and DD is in 7th. Im not sure if HS has anything, but it’s clear by then it could be too late.