"Twenty-five years ago when you overdosed, you died - and now we have something," said Lisa Graff, assistant principal, Abbott Middle School.
That something is Narcan, the antidote for someone overdosing on opioids. West Bloomfield schools are the first in the county to train administrators on how to use it to stop someone from dying when they've had too much. "We do tornado drills, we do fire drills, we have active intruder drill," Graff said. "So this is just another tool in my toolbox to be affective not just in the school but really the community." Macomb County Sheriff’s Department just released a lip sync challenge this month featuring real life cases of people who have OD'd.
"It's a quick puff in the nose and hopefully it will work," she said.
It did in the cases shown during the sheriff's lip sync video. Lives saved, one squeeze of Narcan at a time.