B.C. universities don't have standard way of handling drug overdoses

There is no provincial policy on how B.C. universities and colleges should handle the toxic drug crisis, so emergency medical responses and student access to overdose-reversing medication looks different on every campus.

Postmedia reported last week that UVic students on campus have been told in an emergency to phone security officers, who the university describes as “highly trained medical responders.” The two officers who responded to Sidney’s overdose were carrying naloxone and were trained in CPR, but failed to use either tool until a 911 operator instructed them to do so.

“We’re working toward this idea of a substance-use-health-aware campus, rather than just responding only to the opioid crisis or other problems as they come up,” said Dillon Brady, Carleton’s manager of student conduct and harm reduction. Whiteside did not know the details of what would be discussed, but she said that 911 should always be the first number called during an emergency and that the government will look at what universities such as Carleton are doing.

Maclean said she is proud of the “commendable efforts” made by the officers who responded to Sidney’s overdose. She noted that UVic is “sharing our lessons learned with other universities and campuses across B.C. in hopes that Sidney’s death can help prevent harm to other students.” After Sidney collapsed from fentanyl poisoning, an upper-year residence adviser and a co-worker took it upon themselves to get several naloxone kits from the pharmacy and put them on each floor of that building so students could access them. The kits they pinned to bulletin boards at the entrance to each floor were taken down by UVic employees, who said students hadn’t been trained to use them, but the kits they put in the student lounges were left, said Anne .

Source: Education Headlines (educationheadlines.net)

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