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The opioid crisis has hit the state of West Virginia hard and a new law has been introduced to try and save those who have overdosed in the midst of the crisis.
West Virginia public and private schools will now be able to give drugs to students who overdose on opioids without 1st consulting with parents under the new law. The law was signed last Tuesday by Gov. Jim Justice after passing unanimously by state legislature. The law will also authorize administering the antidote to school personnel or others during regular school hours and @ school functions/events on school property. The law will take effect after 90 days and the Board of Education will develop regulations on trainings, storage of the antidote, and notifying parents after the drug has been administered. In 2016 alone, the state had 844 overdose deaths and more than 700 of those deaths involved @ least some form of opioid i.e heroin, fentanyl, or prescription pain pills. My thoughts: it's not shocking to me personally that this is something that's going to start happening in schools because I can remember these idiots doing drugs in 1 of my high school math classes. I do think it's a good idea to now have this in schools to try and save these young people's lives and try to get them to realize that a life of drugs isn't what you want because without the drug that was administered to you by your teacher, principal, etc you could've/would've died.
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