High schoolers’ overdose deaths in a Central Texas school district leave the town grappling with an opioid crisis. The overdose problem facing the district mimics a nationwide trend of record-breaking drug-related deaths in the past year. With KHNews
The district launched a “Fighting Fentanyl” campaign — which enlists city police and emergency medical services personnel. There’s a “” to which students can anonymously send information about classmates who may be taking illicit drugs. Starting in sixth grade, students are required to watch a 13-minute video that underscores how dangerous and deadly fentanyl is and explains how to identify when a classmate may be overdosing.
The message may be resonating. Sara Hutson, a Lehman High senior, said sharing over-the-counter pills such as Tylenol and Motrin used to be common, but she no longer considers it safe. Her trust is gone. “It’s just the teenage mindset,” he said. “They think, ‘We’re invincible; it’s not going to happen to me.’ But it is happening to us in our community.”
“We told them that there’s some scary things going on, that people are getting very sick and they’re dying from taking what they think is candy or medicine,” Brown said. “We use the word ‘poison,’ so like when Snow White bit the apple.”
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