OPINIONS

The Editorial Board

Recently, New York state mandated that naloxone, or Narcan, be made available in all university residence halls. At Binghamton University, naloxone kits are now available in AED life-safety equipment stations campus-wide.

Additionally, the BU Opioid Overdose Prevention Program (OOPP) has been administering Narcan trainings on campus since 2019.

We commend the University on making these resources more available to students, and we think it is an important step in destigmatizing substance abuse. We hope that the University continues to make drug safety resources more accessible for the student body. Having fentanyl test strips, for example, also readily available in these equipment stations would be enormously helpful. While naloxone is used to prevent opioid induced overdoses, drugs more widely used among college students, such as marijuana and cocaine, can be laced with fentanyl. In fact, in 2020, fatal overdoses among adolescents increased by 94 percent, with many of these deaths attributed to fentanyl-laced prescription medications. We think having these resources more easily accessible in residence halls and on campus is a great step, and we hope to continue to see the University promote and provide these resources more readily.

Additionally, while having

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