Teaching Children How to Reverse an Overdose

[JacksinPA]

Teaching Children How to Reverse an Overdose - The New York Times

In rural Carter County, Tenn., health officials have embraced a strategy for stemming addiction: Teaching children as young as 6 how to administer Narcan, a nasal spray that can stop an opioid overdose from being fatal.[paywall]


ELIZABETHTON, Tenn. — Shortly after his first-grade class let out for the day, Nash Kitchens sat with a dozen other young children at a library and played a murder mystery game that had a surprising plot twist.

The victim was a restaurant worker who had been found dead in a freezer. The killer, the children would discover, was heroin laced with fentanyl, an often fatal opioid.
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Teaching little kids who barely know how to dial 9-1-1 how to rescue an unconscious grownup from a potentially fatal opioid overdose. This part of TN has a significant opioid overdose problem.

 

[joko104]

These are the side effects of Narcan

flushing,
dizziness,
tiredness,
weakness,
nervousness,
restlessness,
irritability,
body aches,
diarrhea,
stomach pain,
nausea,
fever,
chills,
goosebumps,
sneezing,
shortness of breath, or
runny nose.
Severe side effects of Narcan include:

agitation,
high or low blood pressure,
cardiac arrhythmias,
shortness of breath,
pulmonary edema,
abnormal brain function (encephalopathy),
seizures,
coma, and
death.

Side Effects of Narcan (Naloxone Hydrochloride Injection), Warnings, Uses

I particularly noticed the coma and death part.

So 6 year olds are to be given Narcan to administer to a person who is unconscious - like the boy's little sister sleeping in the crib.

 

[Drawdown]

You can buy it OTC in most states but it isn't that cheap

 

[KevinKohler]

Well, if they can do sex ed, why not this?