Some St. Paul high schoolers get overdose response training after classmate’s death

Students at St. Paul’s High School for Recording Arts are taking life-saving matters into their own hands, by learning how to give a life saving dose of naloxone to counteract an overdose.

Students Ryah Davis and Kallah Benjamin helped to organize an overdose response training after tragically losing a classmate to an overdose. “It kind of hit everyone in the softest spot that they have when he passed away,” Davis said.

We were honored to provide our overdose response training to more than 35 students on Monday, November 7th. Thank you St. Paul High School for Recording Arts and the Check Yo’ Self – CYC student organization for supporting and initiating this important public health education for students!

SRHN VISTA member Liz Johnson and the trainer of the session says, “Sometimes I think we forget these issues do impact young people, and I think it’s so important that we remember that they’re being affected by the issue too. I think it’s great that they’re [empowered] to teach themselves.”

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