The University of Kentucky is preparing its campus for an overdose emergency.

The University has placed 60 naloxone boxes around campus.

The opioid rescue kit gives anyone quick access to Narcan, which can be used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose.

U K has joined a number of college campuses making the overdose reversal drug available.

One of the reasons for bringing it to college campuses an increase in the number of students taking drugs they believe to be Adderall or Xanax, but are actually laced with fentanyl.

The problem this has caused is that there's individuals who are being exposed to fit and ill unknowingly, so they're not actively using an opioid, but because the the drug that they are using is contaminated or contains fentanyl, then we have opioid, what we call opioid naive people who who are not taking an opioid that then get exposed to an opioid, and that puts them at the extremely high risk for overdose.

Tomorrow on Kentucky Edition, hear why one group that's fighting to stop opioid addiction and overdoses in the state said giving people this kind of access to Narcan is a game changer.