The Facts on Adolescents and Opioids

• Over 100 adolescents in Wisconsin have died in the last 10
  years from a drug overdose
• Many of our children are experimenting with non-opioid drugs,
  including marijuana, Adderall, Ecstasy, and others which have
  been laced with deadly fentanyl by drug dealers and cartels
• An adolescent unknowingly overdosing on fentanyl has 7 to 8
  minutes to live, unless the opioid antagonist Narcan is
  administered. EMT’s can’t respond fast enough.
• The need is for Narcan (Over-The –Counter nasal opioid
  overdose reversal antidote) to be readily available at all times in
  schools, not just in the school office, locked up after 4:00pm
• By State law any school personnel are indemnified for trying to
  revive a student with Narcan, as well as is any individual citizen
  under the WI Good Samaritan Act
• To provide Narcan in all our public schools would be a one-time
  cost of $1.20 per student
• Over 60% of 6th-12th graders report using alcohol or another
  illegal substance in 2022