Overdose – The Channels

Opioid abuse in college students is on the rise, it needs to stop

March 22, 2019

After living in Isla Vista for a year and a half, I thought I had seen it all when it comes to college parties. When I think about my time here, opioids don’t necessarily come to mind. These substances have never been brou...

New overdose medication saves lives in Santa Barbara County

AIDAN ANDERSON, Channels Staff

November 13, 2017

A new life-saving medication has made its way into the hands of the Santa Barbara’s Sheriff’s Department, and is already preventing opioid overdoses from taking lives. Naloxone, a nasal spray drug designed to reverse the ef...

SBCC student found dead after overdose in Isla Vista apartment

TAYLOR WILLIAMS, News Editor

September 9, 2016

A City College student was found dead in her apartment last Tuesday evening from an apparent heroin overdose in Isla Vista, California. Asha Marie Malocsay, 18, from Livermore, California was found unconscious on Sept. 6 in ...