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California lawmaker goals to stop deadly overdoses, decrease stigma at schools

Editorial Board Published April 20, 2025
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SACRAMENTO — State Assemblyman Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, is taking steps to forestall deadly overdoses on California’s public school campuses.

At a press convention on Monday at UC Berkeley, Haney plans to introduce laws referred to as the Campus Overdose Prevention invoice, which might prohibit California public universities from expelling college students concerned in medical emergencies within the hopes of stopping deadly drug overdoses on campuses.

Haney stated the invoice, AB 602, is about “protecting California’s young people,” particularly these coping with habit issues, and people who name 911 to assist save somebody who experiences an overdose. The invoice, as at the moment proposed, doesn’t prohibit disciplinary motion for many who promote medicine or alcohol to college students. It could apply to the state’s UC, CSU and group school techniques and forestall college students from being punished for calling 911 for drug-related medical incidents.

Assemblyman Matt Haney, D-San Francisco, throughout the Meeting session in Sacramento, Calif., on Thursday, June 30, 2022. In California, landlords can cost as much as two months’ hire as a safety deposit. For a furnished unit, it may be as much as three months.However a brand new invoice by Haney goals to finish these excessive fees, capping safety deposits at a single month’s hire for many residences, condos, and single-family properties. (AP Photograph/Wealthy Pedroncelli) 

“What would you want to happen if this was your son or daughter in a medical emergency?” Haney stated. “The reality may be that it is a difference of minutes or seconds that can determine whether they survive.”

TJ McGee, a UC Berkeley sophomore, stated he’s nonetheless coping with disciplinary motion that would price him his diploma if he steps out of bounds after an on-campus overdose final yr. He attends the identical college the place pupil Marco Troper, the son of former YouTube govt Susan Wojcicki, died of an unintentional overdose in February final yr on campus.

“I just have a microscope on me now,” McGee, 19, stated in an interview. “I can’t mess up in any way or there is threat of expulsion, or threat of suspension.”

McGee suffered a seizure in his dorm room whereas experiencing a drug overdose whereas his roommates have been current, he stated. Certainly one of his roommates referred to as 911 and a resident assistant — one other pupil who works on the dorms — was the primary to answer assist McGee, he stated.

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“For them, there was for sure worry and fear of getting in trouble,” McGee stated. “They felt like they had to choose between staying or leaving.”

McGee referred to as this response “unethical,” saying he hopes Haney’s proposed invoice would encourage universities to bolster their medical emergency response protocols within the face of hazard.

“People fear the repercussion of hypothetically being found in possession of narcotics of any sort or alcohol of any sort,” McGee said. “This culture of shame is what held me back.”

McGee stated that he’ll proceed to be underneath probation till this December. He and Haney each talked about that the fentanyl epidemic in California, particularly at universities, is getting regularly extra harmful for college students.

Haney stated 7,000 Californians since 2022 have died of an overdose. Deaths of individuals between the ages of 15 and 24 have doubled over the previous 5 years, largely due to fentanyl, he stated.

“In medical emergencies, you do not want your son or daughter thinking about whether they will be able to stay in school if they call 911,” Haney added. “They should just call 911.”

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