UC-Santa Cruz Distributes Narcan, Fentanyl Test Strips in Effort to Make Drug Usage Safer
“We want to ensure that you have the tools to party and explore without putting yourself in harm’s way.”
When did this become the responsibility of schools? What does it have to do with the pursuit of knowledge?
Campus Reform reports:
‘Party and explore’: UCSC distributes Narcan and fentanyl test strips in effort to make drug usage safer
The University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) is distributing Narcan and free fentanyl test strips to students to promote safe drug use on campus.
The products are available through the school’s Student Health Outreach & Promotion (SHOP) office, which bills itself as a “go-to spot for health-related info, real conversations, and personal growth.”
“We provide a safe, judgment-free space to explore your health and well-being, the mission statement reads. “Using a public health approach, we empower individuals and our community to make informed decisions that positively impact overall wellness.”
One of the office’s services, referred to as “Harm Reduction Support,” aims to reduce overdoses and provide safer methods of drug use.
“Harm Reduction is also a movement for social justice built on a belief in, and respect for, the rights of people who use drugs,” the school’s website explains.
“No matter where you are in your relationship to substance use, there are ways to use substances that are demonstrably safer than others,” the program’s description continues. “We want to ensure that you have the tools to party and explore without putting yourself in harm’s way.”
SHOP states, “Testing drugs for fentanyl is one way to stay safer while using substances” via the Fentanyl Test Strips category.
Naloxone, known by the brand name Narcan, is available to all UCSC students for free at various points across campus, detailed on the school’s “Campus Naloxone Map.” The school also provides a 15-minute training on how to administer the medication, along with a small kit that includes naloxone and fentanyl test strips.
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I feel for the families of these individuals, but they either want to to get help or they do not. If they do not, all this does is delay the inevitable. If they do want to leave this addicition, THAT is what the government should spend money on.
Which I am torn about – because it is not the governments job to do so. But we have a cultural norm that we take care of each other, that we protect life, that all life is precious. And that is a cultural norm I do not want to see leave us (as would happen under communism or sharia)
Fentanyl test strips seem like a good idea to me.
The kid buys a pill he thinks is ecstasy and would be relatively safe to ingest
But it is a fatal dose of fentanyl.
The test strip tells him ( or her) it contains fentanyl
If cartels were hiding fentanyl in Tylenol, Nyquil, or Ex-Lax, I’d agree with you.
US Santa Cruz. Welcome to the booby hatch. Google search videos of 4/20 day at UCSC.
*UC
I remember when harm reduction was simply called enabling.
I can foresee a case against the university claiming that it supported and enabled drug use and subsequent harm or death of a student.
I can equally easily see a claim of failure to prevent a clearly foreseeable death by *not* providing test strips.
Given today’s litigation environment I can’t figure out which is more likely and which would prevail.
Heck, possibly both. Our courts could be that schizophrenic.