Students to get opioid warning

CITY SCHOOLKIDS will get materials warning of the dangers of opioid addiction under a bill passed by the City Council on Thursday.

The city will also have to distribute naloxone — which can reverse overdoses from drugs like heroin — to all the needle exchange programs operating in the five boroughs, as part of a package of legislation approved to combat the opioid crisis.

Mayor de Blasio is expected to sign the bills into law.

“Misinformation is one of the many deadly forces driving the opioid epidemic. If we emphasize opioid education from an early age, I have no doubt we’re going to save some lives,” said Councilman Justin Brannan (D-Brooklyn), who sponsored the bill requiring the city to draw up pamphlets on the heroin and prescription drug crisis aimed at middle and high school students and give it out at the beginning of each academic year.

Another bill will require homeless shelters to refer residents who overdose and are revived with naloxone to drug treatment services.