ATLANTA ( WJCL ) — Georgia will equip every public school in the state with opioid overdose reversal kits under a new initiative announced Thursday by the Georgia Department of Behavioral Health and Developmental Disabilities and the Georgia Department of Education.

Funded with opioid settlement dollars administered by the Georgia Opioid Crisis Abatement Trust, the Georgia Overdose Response Partnership will supply more than 2,300 public schools with naloxone (Narcan), personal protective equipment and information to request refills.

“The opioid settlement funds give us a once-in-a-generation opportunity to turn tragedy into prevention,” DBHDD Commissioner Kevin Tanner said in a statement. “Putting overdose reversal kits in every Georgia school is a practical, compassionate use of those

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