After several cases of student overdoses due to the synthetic opioid fentanyl, California lawmakers introduced a bill requiring naloxone—a nasal spray that reverses an opioid overdose—on K–12 school campuses.
While schools are permitted to carry naloxone on campus, Assembly Bill 19—introduced Dec. 5 by newly-elected Assemblyman Joe Patterson (R-Rocklin)—would require schools to always have at least two doses of the spray.
Patterson also introduced Assembly Bill 18 the same day, which would provide written notice to anyone convicted of trafficking fentanyl that they may be convicted of murder if another person dies as a result of them selling the drug….