As students arrived for the start of a new school year, they began to notice something new: small, purple and white boxes of naloxone across campus.
Naloxone, the generic name of Narcan, is an immediate overdose treatment for opioids, including fentanyl, heroin and morphine. The installations are a part of the Opioid Overdose Prevention Program, known as OOPP, a project started last year by Susannah Carter, ‘25.
“It started as my senior project for health studies,” Carter said. “I attended a rapid Narcan training on campus…and it seemed really incredible that you could save someone’s life in two minutes.”…