At a high school in Kyle, Texas, three students have died of fentanyl overdoses in the past nine months. “The nurses have Narcan hanging right by the door in case somebody needs to come in and grab it,” a junior said.
Last February, when a teen-age boy died of a fentanyl overdose in Kyle, Texas, south of Austin, local law enforcement hoped that it was an isolated incident. “By all accounts, he did most of his association with the Austin crowd,” Kyle’s police chief, Jeff Barnett, recalls thinking. “He goes to school in Austin, associates with people from Austin, this is not particularly a Kyle drug problem.
A junior at Lehman High School, where three students have died after taking fentanyl in the past nine months, told me that this year already felt different, owing to security measures put in place after last year’s: there are more security officers, more hall monitors, and all the doors are locked at all times. Now overdoses, and the fear of overdoses, are making school an even more stressful place. “We had a couple times where people have overdosed in bathrooms.
Some politicians have linked youth overdoses to federal immigration policy. “Illicit drugs are flowing into the country at an alarming rate because of Biden’s open border,” the Republican National Committee tweeted, in February. Texas Governorcited the rise in youth fentanyl deaths as a justification for building a state-funded border wall. The Hays County deaths have become part of that narrative.
Christian befriended Noah Rodriguez, a bright, impulsive kid who lived nearby. During the pandemic lockdowns, Noah had stopped taking his A.D.H.D. medicine. “I’m not in school—why should I?” he said to his mom, Janel. Without football practice occupying his time, he began congregating with kids at the park near his house. When Noah started high school, Janel was relieved that he’d be going to Johnson High School, which draws from the wealthier part of the county. “That’s a very new school.
On Valentine’s Day, Christian piled clothes under his covers in the shape of his sleeping body and sneaked out of a window in his grandmother’s room, the only one in the house without a lock on it. After he and his girlfriend got pulled over that night after stopping in the middle of a four-way intersection, Kerry told the stunned police officer that she wanted to press charges.
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