6-Year-Olds Learning How to Give Narcan for ODs A county in opiods-ravaged Tennessee is teaching children as young as 6 how to administer Narcan to overdose victims, The New York...
6-Year-Olds Learning How to Give Narcan for ODs
A county in opiods-ravaged Tennessee is teaching children as young as 6 how to administer Narcan to overdose victims, The New York Times reports. Nearly 600 youngsters and youths in rural Carter County have been trained with the life-saving nasal spray and given two doses to take home—and it appears that up to 100 of them have had to use it. “Lots of people say children don’t need to think about these things,” drug prevention educator Jilian Reeves explained to the Times. “But I’d rather a kid should go through the trauma of giving Narcan than see their parent die.” Ninety people in the county of 52,000 have died from opioids since 2016. Addiction reports and news claim the response from the community is strong but some say 6 year olds need to focus on learning their alphabets and ABC’s before learning how to give their family members Narcan…
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