Could a Narcan vending machine help stem opioid deaths among young people?
LA TimesA free vending machine that dispenses the overdose-reversal drug naloxone was unveiled this week at Santa Clara University, the first such campus resource in the Bay Area, school officials said. Students were the driving force behind the movement at Santa Clara University to apply the principles of harm reduction, which aims to prevent drug-related deaths by providing treatment and services instead of promoting abstinence-only policies, said assistant public health professor Jamie Chang, who helped spearhead the campaign for the machine. “With the free vending machine that is centralized in the student commons area, we want to de-stigmatize this medication and give students the tools and education they need to keep our community safer,” Chang said. Chang, who has been helping with small-scale naloxone distribution for years, said the dispenser at Santa Clara University is the first of its kind to be unveiled at a Bay Area university.
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Instead of sodas, these vending machines offer needles and Narcan to fight overdoses
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Newsom signs bill pushing for Narcan in workplace first aid kits
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California will supply first responders, universities with opioid overdose reversal drug for free
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Lawmaker wants California workplaces to put Narcan in first-aid kits
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L.A. students will be able to carry Narcan in schools under updated policy
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Narcan could be required at California schools after youth fentanyl overdoses
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Los Angeles school district will distribute overdose reversal drug to every K-12 school after student death, officials say
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Los Angeles school district will distribute overdose reversal drug to every K-12 school after student death, officials say
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After string of teen overdoses, L.A. schools will get OD reversal drug naloxone
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