The Nevada System of Higher Education lacks an official policy on making naloxone, the medication that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, readily available on college campuses.
University of Nevada Reno public health graduate student Madalyn Larson, who co-chairs the Northern Nevada Harm Reduction Alliance, believes there is a need for one.
“Doing my seven consecutive years at UNR, I’ve noticed a lot of drug use,” she told lawmakers at on the interim Committee on Health and Human Services last week. “Is it not really unusual because college and young adult years are a time for experimentation. What is unusual is the inability to find access to harm reduction tools across the university’s campus to empower drugs to use drugs safely.”
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