Helping Educators Respond to Overdoses Act establishes a grant program for schools to obtain opioid overdose reversal drugs and requires reporting of.
The Helping Educators Respond to Overdoses Act, or HERO Act, establishes a grant program to provide schools with opioid overdose reversal drugs. It requires schools receiving federal funds to report any distribution of these drugs to the National Emergency Medical Services Information System and the Overdose Detection Mapping Application Program. The act mandates that grant recipients develop and implement educational programming to promote knowledge of CPR, drug-use prevention, and emergency responses to drug overdoses.
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