Oakton high school overdose

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS just sent out this email with a link to this video about fentanyl. It hits hard, and can happen to anyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHnrWslrxcA

This was heartbreaking. There are no easy solutions, but the points that the parents made about educating your kids specifically about fentanyl, and thinking about creating a culture where if you know something someone is doing you say something were really good ones. Adolescent minds often just really, really don't know how to weigh risks well and the dangers can come on quick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:100% stopping drugs isn't going to happen. But arresting, prosecuting, and jailing the dealers will sure as heck cut down on the drugs.

We just got the email from Michelle Reid, reminds me of an old Richard Pryor line "Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's because white folks are doing it."

Instead of turning the dealers loose in some sort of play for social justice they need to get the max penalty. Probably Youngkin and Miyares will need to get involved because the Fairfax County crew seems to think that a few chats over the dinner table will solve the problem.

Stop with the politics. The red states, and predominately red rural areas within states have struggled even more with opioid problems. This is a national issue. Even in VA, the abuse rates are far worse in the rural communities -- and their politics are in line with Youngkin/Miyares.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:100% stopping drugs isn't going to happen. But arresting, prosecuting, and jailing the dealers will sure as heck cut down on the drugs.

We just got the email from Michelle Reid, reminds me of an old Richard Pryor line "Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's because white folks are doing it."

Instead of turning the dealers loose in some sort of play for social justice they need to get the max penalty. Probably Youngkin and Miyares will need to get involved because the Fairfax County crew seems to think that a few chats over the dinner table will solve the problem.

No it won't. Did you miss the catastrophic failure the "war on drugs" was?

[Anonymous]

How about a community-wide volunteer program where parents rotate monitoring bathrooms/hallways/etc? This is all of our kids and requires a community effort to keep them safe. Does anyone on here have the influence to propose/stand up something like this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCPS just sent out this email with a link to this video about fentanyl. It hits hard, and can happen to anyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHnrWslrxcA

I'm confused on the circumstances of this incident.
The dad said in the video that "Cayden met them on 12/19 which is the first time he took a pill that he thought was a Percocet, and then 6 weeks later he took a pill that killed him that was actually fentanyl. Six weeks is all it took from the first pill to the last pill for him."
My questions are:
1. Was the first pill concealed fentanyl? Or was it a standard fentanyl pill like those which we see in the photos everywhere which their son mistakenly thought it was a Rx painkiller?
2. Did his "friends" who came to his home (who were the drug dealers) convince him to take a pill by saying that all it was it is a Rx painkiller?
3. What happened during the interim period? Did their son have contact with the dealers?

I know the answers to these questions cannot be given by DCUM members but I think it will be important for the community to learn every detail to protect our kids. We should also thank those parents who are making those details public, hopefully the details in the other overdose cases will be made public as well and not hide them in the name of "privacy".

I also hope they catch those drug dealer bastards.

[Anonymous]

This is heartbreaking. I watched the video and so many of us can relate to those parents who had no idea. We all think it can’t be us. After hearing their story, how do you think bathroom monitors will help? These are tiny pills that can be taken anywhere.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCPS just sent out this email with a link to this video about fentanyl. It hits hard, and can happen to anyone.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHnrWslrxcA

I'm confused on the circumstances of this incident.
The dad said in the video that "Cayden met them on 12/19 which is the first time he took a pill that he thought was a Percocet, and then 6 weeks later he took a pill that killed him that was actually fentanyl. Six weeks is all it took from the first pill to the last pill for him."
My questions are:
1. Was the first pill concealed fentanyl? Or was it a standard fentanyl pill like those which we see in the photos everywhere which their son mistakenly thought it was a Rx painkiller?
2. Did his "friends" who came to his home (who were the drug dealers) convince him to take a pill by saying that all it was it is a Rx painkiller?
3. What happened during the interim period? Did their son have contact with the dealers?

I know the answers to these questions cannot be given by DCUM members but I think it will be important for the community to learn every detail to protect our kids. We should also thank those parents who are making those details public, hopefully the details in the other overdose cases will be made public as well and not hide them in the name of "privacy".

I also hope they catch those drug dealer bastards.

My assumption was that they gave him a Percocet and he got hooked on them, and then either they switched it on him or they went back to school and he had to find another source, so instead of real Percocet, they gave him fentanyl. But that's my assumption, I have no idea what actually happen, but seriously how devastating.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Does Chantilly have a drug problem like Oakton?

There's not a high school in the county that doesn't.

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privates too?

Where I are up the private school kids were the worst with drugs....they had money!

Let me guess. You attended public school?

[Anonymous]

Thank you to the parents and FCPS who made that video. I am so sorry and heartbroken for their loss. It could be anyone’s child and I plan to attend the community night in January to learn more. I would like to hear what solutions FCPS can propose to make bathrooms safer- from drugs, sexual assault, and harassment.

[Anonymous]

This didn’t happen in a school bathroom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about a community-wide volunteer program where parents rotate monitoring bathrooms/hallways/etc? This is all of our kids and requires a community effort to keep them safe. Does anyone on here have the influence to propose/stand up something like this?

Um, parents are working. FCPS can hire monitors. They did for Covid.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:100% stopping drugs isn't going to happen. But arresting, prosecuting, and jailing the dealers will sure as heck cut down on the drugs.

We just got the email from Michelle Reid, reminds me of an old Richard Pryor line "Now they're calling taking drugs an epidemic - that's because white folks are doing it."

Instead of turning the dealers loose in some sort of play for social justice they need to get the max penalty. Probably Youngkin and Miyares will need to get involved because the Fairfax County crew seems to think that a few chats over the dinner table will solve the problem.

No it won't. Did you miss the catastrophic failure the "war on drugs" was?

Are you too high to tell the difference between a drug dealer and a drug user?
A fentanyl dealer is a reckless manslaughterer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about a community-wide volunteer program where parents rotate monitoring bathrooms/hallways/etc? This is all of our kids and requires a community effort to keep them safe. Does anyone on here have the influence to propose/stand up something like this?

Um, parents are working. FCPS can hire monitors. They did for Covid.

Community members are better police than outsides. The transactionalization of community is why society is falling apart.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about a community-wide volunteer program where parents rotate monitoring bathrooms/hallways/etc? This is all of our kids and requires a community effort to keep them safe. Does anyone on here have the influence to propose/stand up something like this?

I bet that leads to more adults dealing drugs and assaulting students than it reduces ODs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drug use at Oakton HS is rampant and my kids say everyone knows what bathrooms to avoid. They also say that school administers don’t care. I’m not sure that is true, but it’s the impression kids have.

school administers don't care！totally agree.