How often are students overdosing at school in FCPS HS? Is the problem overblown by media?

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Anonymous wrote:How exactly would test strips be used?

Anyone?

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Anonymous wrote:Arlington County is considering making fentanyl test strips available in every high school and middle school. The idea is very similar to how schools provide free condoms to prevent STDs and teen pregnancy.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How exactly would test strips be used?

Anyone?

The link I provided on the previous page — may partially answer the question.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do they do it in school? Because no one gets disciplined anymore? They know the school can save them just in case?

If they are doing drugs fear of discipline isn’t really a thing. Use your noggin. School is social. Plenty of kids enjoy going to school to see their friends. Doing drugs with your friend’s is fun, and social, at least at first. It’s a social thing, new drug users aren’t hooking on a seedy street corner and shooting up on vomit, blood and feces stained mattresses behind rat infested 7-11 trash dumpsters, zombied out in crack dens Trainspotting with other junkies.

Suburbia is vanilla, and vanilla is boring; drugs are cool, fun, trippy and edgy. And edgy is exciting and the opposite of boring, especially to a kid raised in a bubble. Drugs are fun that is until someone ODs in the bathroom in between chem and English lit.

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https://www.fcps.edu/OpioidMeeting

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Just got an email about an Opioid meeting. Please go and report back.

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Anonymous wrote:Just got an email about an Opioid meeting. Please go and report back.

Same! Yes, someone please go. I only have time to speculate here on DCUM rather than take time to learn about what’s going on.

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Anonymous wrote:Why do they do it in school? Because no one gets disciplined anymore? They know the school can save them just in case?

If they are doing drugs fear of discipline isn’t really a thing. Use your noggin. School is social. Plenty of kids enjoy going to school to see their friends. Doing drugs with your friend’s is fun, and social, at least at first. It’s a social thing, new drug users aren’t hooking on a seedy street corner and shooting up on vomit, blood and feces stained mattresses behind rat infested 7-11 trash dumpsters, zombied out in crack dens Trainspotting with other junkies.

Suburbia is vanilla, and vanilla is boring; drugs are cool, fun, trippy and edgy. And edgy is exciting and the opposite of boring, especially to a kid raised in a bubble. Drugs are fun that is until someone ODs in the bathroom in between chem and English lit.

Yup. And this is the scary part…these kids are looking to get high on Fentanyl. Things are just laced with it and it doesn’t take much. It does happen to good kids from good families. If you think your kids would never, ever…you are in denial and less prepared than parents who acknowledge the risk.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do they do it in school? Because no one gets disciplined anymore? They know the school can save them just in case?

If they are doing drugs fear of discipline isn’t really a thing. Use your noggin. School is social. Plenty of kids enjoy going to school to see their friends. Doing drugs with your friend’s is fun, and social, at least at first. It’s a social thing, new drug users aren’t hooking on a seedy street corner and shooting up on vomit, blood and feces stained mattresses behind rat infested 7-11 trash dumpsters, zombied out in crack dens Trainspotting with other junkies.

Suburbia is vanilla, and vanilla is boring; drugs are cool, fun, trippy and edgy. And edgy is exciting and the opposite of boring, especially to a kid raised in a bubble. Drugs are fun that is until someone ODs in the bathroom in between chem and English lit.

Yup. And this is the scary part…these kids are looking to get high on Fentanyl. Things are just laced with it and it doesn’t take much. It does happen to good kids from good families. If you think your kids would never, ever…you are in denial and less prepared than parents who acknowledge the risk.

Aren’t looking to get high. Typo

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Anonymous wrote:Just got an email about an Opioid meeting. Please go and report back.

Dang it. I didn’t see if it is being streamed. I’m heading out of town. -OP

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why do they do it in school? Because no one gets disciplined anymore? They know the school can save them just in case?

They don't just do it at school. You hear about the cases that happen at school because there are witnesses when someone finds a kid down in a bathroom and yells for help. It's much easier to keep it quiet when it happens at home and the parents find their child unresponsive.

I agree that discipline for bad behavior is a problem across the county but one thing schools will discipline for is substance abuse. A kid who is found with or sells Schedule I or II drugs will get kicked out a lot faster than a kid who threatens to shoot up a school or injures a staff member.

Which school ever kicked out a kid for illegal drugs?

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Anonymous wrote:All FCPS have Narcan and staff trained to administer it.

Even elementary schools.

Yes, so can we get numbers on how often it is administered?

No. This is not going to be released to the public. Period.

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.fcps.edu/OpioidMeeting

From this website:

“ In Fairfax County, there were four fatal overdoses within the 0-17 year old age group in 2022. ”


So incredible tragic. Unclear where these deaths occurred.

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Anonymous wrote:OMG. This????

https://www.cdc.gov/stopoverdose/fentanyl/fentanyl-test-strips.html

It still doesn’t deal with the pre-fentynal opioid issues (ODs) in schools. This means schools care only about fentynal.

Test strips need to be available in every FCPS high school and middle school.

Among adolescents, fentanyl-involved fatalities increased from 253 in 2019 to 680 in 2020 and to 884 in 2021.
In 2021, fentanyls were identified in 77.14% of adolescent overdose deaths.

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The CDC recommends test strips as a harm reduction strategy.

“Fentanyl test strips (FTS) are a low-cost method of helping prevent drug overdoses and reducing harm. FTS are small strips of paper that can detect the presence of fentanyl in all different kinds of drugs (cocaine, methamphetamine, heroin, etc.) and drug forms (pills, powder, and injectables).”

https://www.cdc.gov/stopoverdose/fentanyl/fentanyl-test-strips.html