Students For Opioid Solutions, a grassroots movement to prevent opioid deaths on college campuses, announces Austin Holdsworth, a fraternity president at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, as its campus captain. As SOS’s campus captain, his duty is to guide SOS’s life saving legislation through the Student Government.
Supporters say this legislation will reduce the number of deaths from opioid overdoses on college campuses through a five part process: 1) Pass student government legislation calling upon school administrators to require that residential life and campus police officers receive training in the recognition of an opioid overdose; 2) Encourage residential life staff to receive training in the use of naloxone and either carry it or have reasonably quick access; 3) Ensure that schools record and report the number of opioid overdoses and deaths in their annual public drug and alcohol report; 4) Ensure amnesty for students who report overdoses; and 5) Enact a Good Samaritan clause protecting students who come to the aid of someone suffering from an opioid overdose.
“We are absolutely ecstatic to have Austin on our team.
He is a hard worker and dedicated to the cause,” said Gerald Fraas, president of Students for Opioid Solutions
“Like many people, Austin has a personal connection to the opioid epidemic. Austin has taken this personal connection and turned it into a mission to ensure that his camus is a safer place for students suffering from addiction,” said Charles “Jonah” Wendt, executive director and national field director of Students for Opioid Solutions.