Every California middle and high school will stock at least two doses of naloxone—a nasal spray that treats an opioid overdose—on campus under Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed 2023–24 budget released last week.
While hundreds of schools in the state have already begun to stock the medication amid rising opioid-related overdoses and deaths, Newson’s propsoal of $108.8 billion K–12 education budget (pdf) includes a $3.5 million ongoing increase for the doses to be stocked at the campuses.
