"'It’s just like a little squirt gun,' she told the group of children, before passing around the small plastic device for them to hold and squeeze."

"At the end of the session, each child received a blue zippered bag containing two doses of Narcan to take home.... In the past three years, the county’s drug prevention coalition has given Narcan training to an estimated 600 young children and teenagers in after-school programs, babysitting classes and vaping cessation courses.... At least 100 young people have returned for additional doses... typically after going through their personal supply.... 'Drugs are bad things that could kill you,' [said a 7-year-old boy]. 'Now I know how to use it. I feel good because I like helping people in danger.'"

From "'Open, Insert, Squirt.'/In This Town, Children Are Taught to Administer Narcan/In rural Carter County, Tenn., health officials have embraced a strategy for stemming addiction: Teaching children as young as 6 how to reverse an overdose" (NYT).