An estimated 46 children and teens died from drug use in 2021, prompting schools to seek naloxone supplies to fight overdoses in the classroom.
Even when adjusted for population changes, overdose deaths involving young people rose last year.
Children and teens have been experiencing higher rates of depression and anxiety since before the pandemic, but the crisis exacerbated those feelings, according to school officials and medical experts.as its emergency departments filled with children seeking help for mental illnesses — is treating more patients for fentanyl overdoses in its emergency room, Dr. Sam Wang, a medical toxicologist and pediatric emergency medicine specialist at Children’s Hospital.
“We have a big fentanyl issue in our state,” he said, adding, “Unfortunately, kids are abusing in school, too.” DPS, the state’s largest school district, is revising its medication administration policy so that it can get naloxone from the state health department’s Naloxone Bulk Purchase Fund — hopefully by next school year, Wilken said.
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