                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

INSTRUCTION CONCERNING OPIOID OVERDOSE PREVENTION AND REVERSAL (§ 22.1-206.01)

A. Each local school board shall develop a plan, in accordance with the
guidelines and model curriculum developed by the Department of Health in
collaboration with the Department of Education, in accordance with the protocols
developed by the Board of Pharmacy in consultation with the Board of Medicine
and the Department of Health, for providing at each public secondary school that
includes grades nine through 12 a program of instruction on opioid overdose
prevention and reversal. Such program of instruction shall include instruction
in identifying the signs of a possible opioid overdose and training in the
administration of an opioid antagonist for the reversal of a potentially
life-threatening opioid overdose.

B. Each public secondary school that includes grades nine through 12 shall
provide an opioid overdose prevention and reversal program of instruction at
such grade level as the local school board deems appropriate. Each public
secondary school shall adopt policies for the purpose of encouraging each
student to complete such opioid overdose prevention and reversal program of
instruction prior to graduating from high school.

HISTORY: 2024, cc. 451, 519.