New overdose guidelines coming for B.C. universities

A steering committee has identified early actions for post-secondary institutions to travel successful nan arena of an overdose connected campus.

The Ministry of Post-Secondary Education says early actions it identified see providing clarity connected contacting emergency services, expanding consciousness of toxic supplier alerts and overdose prevention, arsenic good arsenic ensuring accordant entree to naloxone.

The ministry says it is processing aesculapian consequence guidelines, ordering nasal naloxone that will beryllium distributed to nan 25 nationalist post-secondary institutions and launching an overdose consciousness run that will beryllium rolled retired during nan autumn semester.

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The reappraisal comes aft nan coroner called an inquest into nan fatal overdose successful January of a University of Victoria student whose parents opportunity she died aft a hold successful administering naloxone and starting CPR.

The ministry says nan steering committee, which was formed successful May, will proceed to meet this summertime to found a provincewide consequence that will beryllium put into believe astatine each of B.C.’s nationalist post-secondary institutions by nan autumn semester.

Such practices whitethorn see training guidelines for field information personnel, connection guidelines for institutions during a aesculapian emergency, and processing champion practices for connection protocols connected emergency contacts.