Asthma Attack. / Catherine Seipp.
by Seipp, Catherine; SIRS Publishing, Inc.
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BookSeries: SIRS Enduring Issues 2003Article 5Institutions. Publisher: Reason, 2002ISSN: 1522-3256;.Subject(s): Asthma -- Treatment | Asthma in children | Asthmatics | Drug utilization | Inhalers | Students -- Legal status -- Laws | Zero toleranceDDC classification: 050 Summary: "Although school officials have often taken zero-tolerance laws against drugs in schools to mean that even asthma medicine must be kept locked in the office--which obviously defeats the purpose of rescue inhalers like quick-acting bronchodilators--in the past few years many states passed bills specifically exempting inhalers from such rigidly interpreted rules." (REASON) The author examines cases in which students with asthma have been denied easy access to their inhalers and includes arguments from parents who want such school policies changed.
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Articles Contained in SIRS Enduring Issues 2003.
Originally Published: Asthma Attack, April 2002; pp. 42-49.
"Although school officials have often taken zero-tolerance laws against drugs in schools to mean that even asthma medicine must be kept locked in the office--which obviously defeats the purpose of rescue inhalers like quick-acting bronchodilators--in the past few years many states passed bills specifically exempting inhalers from such rigidly interpreted rules." (REASON) The author examines cases in which students with asthma have been denied easy access to their inhalers and includes arguments from parents who want such school policies changed.
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