A friend's overdose death turns high school students to activists
![Niko Peterson and Zoe Ramsey worked to change local school policy and Colorado law after losing a friend to an opioid overdose.](https://npr.brightspotcdn.com/dims3/default/strip/false/crop/3000x2250+0+0/resize/3000x2250!/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fnpr-brightspot.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fb5%2Fd1%2F8025c81844b4bab56d32f975629e%2F240625-burke-opioids-1.jpg)
The Colorado teens lobbied the school board for permission to carry and administer Narcan on school grounds and worked with a state representative on a bill to give that right to students statewide.
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