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The opioid crisis in America known no age boundaries. As a result, schools have taken the step of making anti-overdose drugs available to school nurses around the country, hoping to prevent deaths from overdose among opioid using teens. As recently as 2014, 76 teens died of prescritohn opioid overdoses alone.

The National Asociation of School Nurses has called for “the safe and effective management of opioid pain reliever (OPR)-related overdose in schools be incorporated into the school emergency preparedness and response plan.” The 2013 Partnership Attitude Tracking Study (PATS) stated almost one in four teens reported abusing or misusing a prescription drug at least once in his or her lifetime.

In 2015, New York joined Vermont, Massachusetts, and Delaware in allowing public school nurses to add naloxone to their inventory. Other states with similar policies include

Also through the use of materials dedicated to the prevention of usage, schools and school nursing staffs can hopefully save students from the dangers of opioid abuse.

Although tattooing in prison is a worldwide phenomenon, perhaps nowhere was it more important than Russia, or to be more accurate, the Soviet Union.

In ancient Greece and Rome, tattoos were used to mark criminals. This was also done in 19th century Russia, against the will of the prisoners. However, over time they evolved to be an in-group marking, and one of honor at that.

The important of the tattooing peaked in the Soviet era, in the 1950s, where the consequences for having body art that was considered unearned were severe, up to and including death. Examples of meanings (from Wikipedia):

Cross – The traditional “thieves’ cross” is usually tattooed on the chest. This was very common.
Ships – With full sails it can indicate someone that has fled from custody, a gulnoy or gulat, or that a wearer is a nomadic thief who travels to steal.
Dragons – Indicate a “shark” or someone who has stolen state or collectively owned property.^[

Although the heyday of Russian/Soviet prison tattooing and art is past, its influence lives on today and is a part of pop culture in the country.

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