Phillip Sean Curran, Staff Writer
By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer, Nurses at Princeton public schools will have opioid antidote to administer to any student, staff member or anyone else suffering an overdose., The Board of Education on Tuesday had a first reading of a policy to about administering the antidote, as Princeton seeks to join other New Jersey school districts seeking to save lives in a state dealing with an opioid epidemic., “Any student who receives an opioid antidote by the school nurse or by an emergency medical responder shall be transported to the nearest hospital …,” the policy read in part. “The principal, principal’s designee or supervising staff member will notify the parent of any student or a family member or other contact person for a school staff member who may be experiencing a possible opioid overdose as soon as practicable.”, School nurses will be responsible for storing the antidote in a “safe and secure location,” noting on a student’s health records that the student had been administered the antidote and meeting other requirements of the policy., The policy said the state Department of Education has said districts can develop those policies to provide the antidote to someone during “school hours” or “on-site school sponsored activities to block the opioid’s life-threatening effects.”, For example, Robbinsville adopted, in March, a policy dealing with administering the antidote., Gov. Chris Christie has sought to focus on and combat the epidemic. During an appearance this week on CNN, he said that in New Jersey in 2016, “four times the number of people who were murdered by a gun died of opioid overdoses.”
