Young people are dying of opioid overdoses. Are students and campuses prepared?
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🗓️ 11 August 2024
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Yet, there are ways to mitigate the risk of overdose, and even ways to reverse it.
Notably there's Narcan.
It's a brand of the medication naloxone, and it's often used in the form of nasal spray. If administered quickly, it can fully reverse an opioid overdose.
Are college campuses and their students prepared?
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| 0:00.0 | For Monica Vera Schubert, getting insurance to cover addiction treatment was a long road. |
| 0:05.0 | She went through the process for her son, Bobby. |
| 0:07.6 | They finally prevailed and Bobby got sober. |
| 0:10.4 | And Vera Schubert, a single mom, was immensely grateful. |
| 0:13.7 | Because my son is alive. |
| 0:16.3 | I appreciate every moment I have with him. |
| 0:18.4 | Can I always tell him, Bobby, I'm so proud of you. |
| 0:21.2 | I'm so proud of you. |
| 0:22.4 | And he goes, mom, I'm proud of you I'm so proud of you and he goes mom I'm proud of you he's a wonderful kid that's |
| 0:26.3 | Vera Schubert speaking with NPR reporter Yukinaguchi four years ago Bobby went on to |
| 0:32.1 | resume his studies and he got into his dream school, |
| 0:34.4 | UCLA. He joined his activist mom making videos that warned of the |
| 0:39.0 | prescription drug abuse that had entrapped him. I can say I love you to my mom now and I used to not be able to say that at least |
| 0:46.5 | look her in the eye and say that. This spring Monica Vera Schubert got back in touch |
| 0:51.2 | with NPR. |
| 0:52.6 | Bobby had relapsed, and then on April 12th, |
| 0:55.8 | his college roommate found him slumped over his desk in the dorm. |
| 0:59.6 | His mother says he'd take in fake Xanax, |
| 1:01.7 | likely laced with fentanyl. |
| 1:04.0 | Bobby Schubert was 29 when he died. |
| 1:07.1 | On that devastating night, his mother wailed as officials drove off with her son's body. She felt shunned, she says. |
| 1:14.0 | No one from UCLA, the police, or the medical examiner |
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