APS overdose at Wakefield

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So many ripple effects. The Marshall girls basketball team was going to celebrate its seniors tonight at a game with Wakefield. But APS cancelled the sporting events at the school so the game has to be postponed. The family members and friends who arranged their schedules to attend the event got told "tough luck" on short notice.

A kid is in the icu. Check yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many ripple effects. The Marshall girls basketball team was going to celebrate its seniors tonight at a game with Wakefield. But APS cancelled the sporting events at the school so the game has to be postponed. The family members and friends who arranged their schedules to attend the event got told "tough luck" on short notice.

Plan your senior night for a game at Marshall. Get a grip lady. A kid is in the hospital.

I am not the poster you are replying to but you and others need to calm down.
I get what the person is saying. There was no purpose in cancelling sports.
Life goes on for thousand of other students. Yes, It’s a terrible, cruel fact.

It’s terrible what happened to this student. I hope that he can recover. But tomorrow students will return to Wakefield
and some kids will still be taking drugs at school and clubs with meet, and sports will get practiced and life will go on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Seems to be quite a bit of fentanyl laced percocets in our local schools. Wakefield today, Culpeper last week, Justice right before that. And I’m sure others that I just haven’t read about but have happened

Sounds like it is one dealer who is dealing to smaller dealers around the area

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So many ripple effects. The Marshall girls basketball team was going to celebrate its seniors tonight at a game with Wakefield. But APS cancelled the sporting events at the school so the game has to be postponed. The family members and friends who arranged their schedules to attend the event got told "tough luck" on short notice.

Plan your senior night for a game at Marshall. Get a grip lady. A kid is in the hospital.

I am not the poster you are replying to but you and others need to calm down.
I get what the person is saying. There was no purpose in cancelling sports.
Life goes on for thousand of other students. Yes, It’s a terrible, cruel fact.

It’s terrible what happened to this student. I hope that he can recover. But tomorrow students will return to Wakefield
and some kids will still be taking drugs at school and clubs with meet, and sports will get practiced and life will go on.

You are so incredibly tone deaf. Kids know their friend is fighting for his life. Many know it could have been them. Under no circumstance would it be appropriate to host a basketball game today.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Here’s the link with details about how to request free narcan (if you are a county resident, I think):

https://www.arlingtonva.us/Government/Programs/Health/Arlington-Addiction-Recovery-Initiative/Treatment-Resources/Narcan

Thank you

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Seems to be quite a bit of fentanyl laced percocets in our local schools. Wakefield today, Culpeper last week, Justice right before that. And I’m sure others that I just haven’t read about but have happened

Sounds like it is one dealer who is dealing to smaller dealers around the area

Not necessarily. The pills are produced by the cartels in Mexico and shipped all over the country. In one batch there can be some that have fentanyl and some that don’t

[Anonymous]

https://www.nbcwashington.com/news/local/student-found-unconscious-in-arlington-high-school-bathroom-police-investigating/3267701/?fbclid=IwAR1VploCyZP7eA7qF4Px9wmCdzpsngjqbClAQ4_-tX6sUC1HkRCAaATStm4&mibextid=Zxz2cZ#ldl5lqr9p5ix1jpxu1g

[Anonymous]

Narcan was administered per the news article. Thank goodness the person who found the boy knew the signs of overdose. All parents should know the signs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The important thing is that we all come together and blame the teachers.

Yep- why werent they monitoring almost legal adult in the bathrooms! <sarcasm>

Right?! Over on AEM they are calling for teaches to monitor bathrooms, teachers to administer Narcan, teachers, teachers, teachers. They are not paid enough for such ridiculous expectations.

I think I understand the SRO controversy (not saying I’m knowledgeable or without my own biases), but isn’t that return of SROs one option that we should seriously consider?

[Anonymous]

My high school had several staff who were hall monitors. Does that position exist in APS?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I just signed up for tomorrow's training because of PP's post above. Thank you!

Same. I also had no idea you could request narcan as a civilian.

Is narcan being kept in the schools? If not, it absolutely should be.

I watched that video recently of the female sheriff's deputy who was accidentally exposed to fentanyl during a traffic stop and she went down like that *finger snap*. She was out - totally gone - and her fellow deputies brought her back with a dose or two of narcan. It was scary and amazing to see all at the same time.

I really had no idea fentanyl exposure - meaning exposure by touch or powder/dust in the air - was so deadly/serious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just signed up for tomorrow's training because of PP's post above. Thank you!

Same. I also had no idea you could request narcan as a civilian.

Is narcan being kept in the schools? If not, it absolutely should be.

I watched that video recently of the female sheriff's deputy who was accidentally exposed to fentanyl during a traffic stop and she went down like that *finger snap*. She was out - totally gone - and her fellow deputies brought her back with a dose or two of narcan. It was scary and amazing to see all at the same time.

I really had no idea fentanyl exposure - meaning exposure by touch or powder/dust in the air - was so deadly/serious.

I think that video was proven false.


I absolutely agree the fentanyl/opoid issue is a huge problem but also not a fan of "fake news"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My high school had several staff who were hall monitors. Does that position exist in APS?

ROFL at hall monitors stopping bathroom drug deals

[Anonymous]

This is happening to some degree at all high schools. Happened at mine just last week. The kids are getting shit laced with fent and then going in the bathroom and snorting it and going unconscious in class afterward. A couple weeks ago the kid had a full on seizure in class - ambulance called . Last week the teachers tried to wake him up and realized the kid was unconscious. CPR and narcan. There is narcan administration training being offered.

We are doing our best to tell the kids that they are putting their own safety at risk buying something from someone who does not care about what happens to them and then sitting in classes with kids who won’t notice or bare they’re in medical distress. It’s not getting through because they’re young and think drugs are fun / it won’t happen to them. But yes this is every school. And TBH, I don’t blame the sports parents upset their kids’ thing got canceled. Some bonehead decided to snort a perc at school knowing it was stupid and risky and then the good kids doing what they should have to pay the price?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I just signed up for tomorrow's training because of PP's post above. Thank you!

Same. I also had no idea you could request narcan as a civilian.

Is narcan being kept in the schools? If not, it absolutely should be.

I watched that video recently of the female sheriff's deputy who was accidentally exposed to fentanyl during a traffic stop and she went down like that *finger snap*. She was out - totally gone - and her fellow deputies brought her back with a dose or two of narcan. It was scary and amazing to see all at the same time.

I really had no idea fentanyl exposure - meaning exposure by touch or powder/dust in the air - was so deadly/serious.

Yes narcan is being kept in schools. We used to have one dose at mine. They recently upped it to 15 and told us we may be receiving supplemental CPR training and narcan training because it’s becoming such an issue that the nurse could be in another room providing emergency care to a student when it happens in our room and we need to react. Our principal reminded us we can get 2 personal doses to have covered by insurance. You cannot conceive of how much pills laced with fentanyl is changing the game in schools.