With kids easily scoring fentanyl-laced pills by text or social media, Williamson County officials are partnering with Bluebonnet Trails Community Services and local school districts to make Narcan easier to access in schools, to reverse fentanyl’s deadly effects.
"They can go from not breathing and completely unresponsive to awake and talking," said Capt. Amy Jarosek of Williamson County EMS’s Community Paramedic Program.
In the past couple of weeks, Round Rock High School has placed Narcan inside dozens of defibrillator kits, with elementary schools in Leander, Granger, Coupland and Thrall about to do the same.Billboards went up Wednesday morning that include a heartbreaking message, "if you don't think fentanyl kills, just ask his mom."
"It comes in a box. There are two doses in each box," said Jarosek. "It’s a nasal spray, just like you would use an allergy nasal spray."
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