State leaders are trying to get more school districts to sign up for an overdose prevention program that allows school personnel to administer the opioid overdose reversal drug naloxone. Commonly sold under the brand name Narcan, the so-called miracle drug blocks the effects of heroin and other opioids and reverses an overdose, which causes breathing to slow down or stop and has contributed to the deaths of some 30,000 Americans in 2015. State education law permits school districts, BOCES, county vocational education and extension boards, charter schools and non-public schools to participate in the overdose prevention program. District boards of education and other school governing bodies are encouraged to develop district-wide overdose prevention policies (consistent with state law and regulations) before joining. The district made headlines in late 2013 after a high school student was charged with injecting a 15-year-old classmate with heroin in the boys' locker room. State education officials said Monday they are going to work with superintendents to increase awareness of the program, since just having naloxone on school grounds gets people talking about the dangers of opioid use.