Fighting the Opioid Crisis on California’s College Campuses

During the summer of 2022, California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed <a href="https://leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/billTextClient.xhtml?bill_id=202120220SB367" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Senate Bill 367</a> — a bill aimed at reducing opioid-related overdoses across public colleges and universities in the state. This bill came at a time when the U.S. had just seen its highest rate of opioid-involved drug overdose deaths, which reached over 80,000 in 2021, according to the <a href="https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">National Center for Health Statistics</a> (NCHS). That is a 17% increase in fatal opioid-related overdoses from 2020. Newsom’s Senate Bill 367, otherwise known as the Campus Opioid Safety Act, attempts to combat this upward trend in deaths by urging California community colleges and universities to do their part in raising awareness about opioid overdose prevention. <a href="https://medium.com/@brandon.sarmiento.790/fighting-the-opioid-crisis-on-californias-college-campuses-bfcc946f7e5">Read More</a>