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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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Posted: Nov 08 2015 at 5:02pm |
Updated: 11:56 a.m.
Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015 | Posted: 7:30 a.m. Sunday, Nov. 8, 2015 Could school nurses soon be giving Narcan?
It’s seen as a preventative
measure as more drug overdose deaths occur.
By Lauren Pack Staff Writer In
2014, 103 people died of heroin overdoses, according to the Middletown Health
Department and the Butler County Coroner’s Office. As of June this year, there
have been 85 heroin overdose deaths. “I
will support whatever is necessary to fight the heroin crisis in our city —
whatever our school district decides I would support their decisions fully,”
said Middletown Police Chief Rodney Muterspaw. Narcan
reverses the effects of heroin or opiate-derived drug overdoses. In
an Oct. 29 letter addressed to the U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services, Brown (D-Ohio) asked that grants be made available through existing
programs, including the Rural Opioid Overdose program, to assist schools in the
acquisition of naloxone and the training of school nurses and other personnel
in its use. “Too
many young people are facing drug abuse and drug overdoses,” Brown said in a
release. “The National Association of School Nurses and school administrators
across the country agree: we need to use every resource available to save young
lives.” The
president of the National Association of School Nurses, Beth Mattey, told this
news organization that there is a need to address the overall problem of
prescription opiate and heroin abuse now: “It is in the community; it is just a
matter of time before it is in the schools.” Butler
County Sheriff Richard Jones said he supports any measure that would help stop
the heroin epidemic for those who are young enough to kick it. “Sure
I would support it for kids because there are kids that don’t always make the
right choice,” Jones said. “You know, kids have a chance to beat it, but the
adults you see sleeping under the bridge addicted, it is really tough. It is a
battle and we are not doing well.” Drug
cartels target children as new customers, so it is important to make a
difference early, according to Jones. “I
do believe, along with the narcan, they should also have to enter a treatment
program after they overdose,” he said. “Just saving them doesn’t do any good if
they continue to overdose.” Jackie
Phillips, Middletown Health Department director, said young people are
overdosing and she believes narcan should be available where those emergencies
are occurring. “If
schools are where overdoses are occurring, then I could certainly see it at a
nurses station or with a resource officer,” Phillips said. “It
is a safe drug and it can save someone. I would hate see someone in front of me
overdosing and not be able to help them,” she said, adding that she always has
a Narcan dose at the ready. Tracy
Heineke, Hamilton City Schools supervisor to health service said, “I don’t know
of any policy regarding this. We have a very quick The
president of the National Association of School Nurses, Beth Mattey, told this
news organization that there is a need to address the overall problem of
prescription opiate and heroin abuse now: “It is in the community; it is just a
matter of time before it is in the schools.” According
to the Centers for Disease Controls 2013 National Youth Risk Behavior Survey,
17.8 percent of high school students had used a prescription drug, including
opioids at least once in their life, 2.2 percent had used heroin and 22.1
percent had used, sold or been offered drugs on school property. But
“I
believe in our schools we ought to have something called boundaries,” Ogletree
said. “And that is far, way outside the boundary of what a school is all
about.” |
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Vivian Moon
MUSA Council Joined: May 16 2008 Location: Middletown, Ohi Status: Offline Points: 4187 |
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How many OD's has the Middletown School System had in the past three years?
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VietVet
MUSA Council Joined: May 15 2008 Status: Offline Points: 7008 |
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Ok, we supply the schools with Narcan. They administer the dosage to the overdosed student. The student passes away despite the treatment. In this day of sue happy people just looking to make a few million the easy way, couldn't we be setting the schools (taxpayers funded) up for lawsuits by the parents for not saving their little darlings from death?
Why don't we leave the medical treatments to the 911 system, the squads and the hospitals to handle instead. Time to put the responsibility of dealing with the drug overdose problem with kids in the hands of the ones who should be held most responsible.....the parents. It is not society's job to take care of people's kids 24/7 because the parents don't want to deal with their upkeep and society (the taxpayer) should not have to pay for the constant overdose treatments because the kid has chosen this lifestyle. Let the parent pay for the kid's treatment. Where are the kids overdosing in the schools and why aren't these types of activities monitored more closely by the schools? If the practice isn't in place already, it would appear we need some hall walking, parking lot/school perimeter monitoring and bathroom monitoring during school time. |
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I'm so proud of my hometown and what it has become. Recall 'em all. Let's start over.
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bumper
MUSA Citizen Joined: Feb 01 2010 Location: over here Status: Offline Points: 307 |
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hell NO to supply the schools with Narcan!! call 911 if they get there in time or if they don't !! stop trying to save these fools from for sure death for their choice!!
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