Hunter
10/28/22
The Iowa City Community Schools Board voted unanimously to stock two doses of Narcan in every school in case of opioid overdoses.
The Press-Citizen reports that the drug, technically known as Naloxone, is an opioid antagonist that blocks opioid’s activation in the body, and would be administered by a trained school nurse of faculty member.
Jessica Jimmerson is coordinator of health services for the district; she says that every building has a handful of people already certified to administer the drug, with pharmacists at the University of Iowa Hospitals and Clinics willing to help train others to administer the drug.
The vote on Tuesday was unanimous. Fatal opioid overdoses in Iowa were up 12 percent last year, to 479.