Delaware lawmakers have moved to make Naloxone available to school nurses throughout the state to fight the rising use of heroin.
The drug reverses the effects of an overdose.
The state House of Representatives approved the measure yesterday afternoon.
Representative Mike Barbieri said the legislation would not require schools to keep the drug on hand.
Last year Governor Jack Markell signed a law that made the drug available without a prescription.
The Wilmington News Journal reports that last year over 31-hundred people addicted to heroin arrived at the doorsteps of state funded clinics.
