Psychiatric News (6/23) reported, “The American Medical Association (AMA) is encouraging states, communities, and schools to adopt policies that allow naloxone and other overdose reversal medications to be readily accessible to teachers and school staff,” as well as “urging states, communities, and schools to ‘remove barriers to students carrying safe and effective overdose medications.’” This “policy was sponsored by the AMA Section Council on Psychiatry, which includes delegates from” the American Psychiatric Association (APA), “the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry…the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law, and the American Association for Geriatric Psychiatry.” Kenneth Certa, MD, “an APA delegate to the section council, told Psychiatric News that the adopted resolution ‘will embolden school boards to make this change so students will not die on school campuses because no one has the necessary medication to keep them alive until EMS gets there.’”
Related Links:
— “AMA Backs Making Overdose Reversal Medications More Accessible in Schools, Psychiatric News, June 23, 2023