BUTLER TWP — Butler Area School District schools may be able to carry naloxone, if a proposed policy is approved.

The school board approved a first reading of a new policy Monday in a vote of 6-2 that would allow the narcotic overdose combatant to be carried by “administration” and administered by licensed health care professional staff members and school police officers.

The policy would authorize administration to “maintain a supply of nasal naloxone in all school buildings and to develop and implement safe and responsible procedures and protocols for administering naloxone to people believed to be experiencing an opioid overdose.”

The school board heard from several parents at last week’s board meeting who said they were concerned about drug use and overdose in the high school.

The board will have to approve a second reading of the policy to officially implement it in the school district.

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