Naloxone Texas aims to make life-saving medication available on every college campus across the state

Naloxone Texas is working to ensure the life-saving medication is easily accessible and available at every college campus in the state.

“In Texas, there’s legislation for K through 12 schools, and there’s legislation for other workforces, but there’s not really a systematic way of getting into our colleges and universities,” said Dr. Tara Karns-Wright. “It’s so important for college students because we know that fentanyl is actually the leading cause of death for individuals ages 18 to 45. And so that encapsulates that age group”.

Karns-Wright is the director of Naloxone Texas, a program of the Be Well Institute on Substance Use and Related Disorders at the University of Texas at San Antonio (UTSA) and its patient-care enterprise, UT Health San Antonio.

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