APS overdose at Wakefield

[Anonymous]

Any update on the student hospitalized?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I was in college when ecstasy/molly was all the rage.

I remember my parents drilling in my head that you could have the one pill in the bad batch that ends your life.

I never took it. I did grow up in the Nancy Regan 'just say no (to drugs)' era and I was basically scared straight. Also being told just one hit of heroin could have you hooked.

It's worth revisiting that movie 'Traffic' where Michael Douglas is the drug czar and his wealthy teenage daughter gets hooked on heroin. Benicio del Torro is in it too.

Same with me. In fact, a friend from VT did die at a concert from taking a bad molly pill. Scared me straight.

+1

I don’t think anti-drug is like the 80s when they were cleaning up the crack epidemic which destroyed places like New Haven in the 80s.

Vaping Abe the smell of pot is everywhere and kids just equate all these drugs the same. Why not try something other than weed.

It is a big public health issue and with many kids used to taking meds for adhd and anxiety/depression they have no qualms about swallowing pills given to them when someone tells them it’s just like adderall, etc

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wakefield has some rough neighborhoods so it's an unfortunate issue for that school

Doesn’t Yorktown have a bigger drug problem?

That’s what I’ve always heard, but I haven’t seen the stats.

Wealthy Yorktown parents (many lawyers) can get their kids out of trouble before they even show up as stats.

I have a junior at Yorktown. No ODs this year.

And plenty of wealthy folks in the Washington-Liberty area as well. And Aurora Hills feeds to Wakefield, so....

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wakefield has some rough neighborhoods so it's an unfortunate issue for that school

You know there was an overdose at Yorktown recently? This is not a rough neighborhood issue.

This is not true at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No one said SROs were the only solution, but should be *part* of the solution. Nothing will stop all drug issues at school, but having an SRO on site could help stop the pipeline or, at least, make kids think twice and make healthier decisions.

As someone who works at a school with SROs: it does none of those things. They just know not to do their thing in the bathrooms closest to the SRO office.

[Anonymous]

This is quite interesting to go back and read about Arlington's MS and HS drug problem in 2017

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/675380.page

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wakefield has some rough neighborhoods so it's an unfortunate issue for that school

Doesn’t Yorktown have a bigger drug problem?

That’s what I’ve always heard, but I haven’t seen the stats.

Wealthy Yorktown parents (many lawyers) can get their kids out of trouble before they even show up as stats.

Please stop with this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wakefield has some rough neighborhoods so it's an unfortunate issue for that school

Doesn’t Yorktown have a bigger drug problem?

That’s what I’ve always heard, but I haven’t seen the stats.

Wealthy Yorktown parents (many lawyers) can get their kids out of trouble before they even show up as stats.

I have a junior at Yorktown. No ODs this year.

And plenty of wealthy folks in the Washington-Liberty area as well. And Aurora Hills feeds to Wakefield, so....

Either you are naive or a troll. Maybe no ODs on campus, but don’t pretend drug use is only a problem in poor neighborhoods.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wakefield has some rough neighborhoods so it's an unfortunate issue for that school

Doesn’t Yorktown have a bigger drug problem?

That’s what I’ve always heard, but I haven’t seen the stats.

Wealthy Yorktown parents (many lawyers) can get their kids out of trouble before they even show up as stats.

Not when they drive drunk

Is this a reference to the student who killed the W-L student by DUI? (I'm not using names because I don't want this to be searchable)

If so, you're horrible.

There have been a few over the recent years.

[Anonymous]

The drugs are a symptom of the larger parenting problems. Our kids are in crisis.

[Anonymous]

My heart aches for these parents and I hope the kids get the help they need. I sat down with my middle schooler after school today to ask what they knew about this,and had yet another don't-do-drugs talk using this as an example of the dangers. DC actually had a few questions, which was great to have a receptive audience. The whole conversation took less than 10min. I promised we would discuss drugs and alcohol many times over the next few years.

[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

My DS told me Westfield is having issues

[Anonymous]

The same phones we've given our kids to keep them "safe" are the same phones they're using to buy drugs off Snapchat.

Drugs are in every neighborhood and every school no matter if it's Title 1 high school or an 80K per year boarding school.

Kids who use drugs come from all kinds of families.

No family/community is immune.

Time for all parents to get their heads out of the sand.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No one said SROs were the only solution, but should be *part* of the solution. Nothing will stop all drug issues at school, but having an SRO on site could help stop the pipeline or, at least, make kids think twice and make healthier decisions.

As someone who works at a school with SROs: it does none of those things. They just know not to do their thing in the bathrooms closest to the SRO office.

And some kids aren’t doing drugs bc SRos are there. Waiting to get “all” won’t help. Let’s at least get to deterring “some”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No one said SROs were the only solution, but should be *part* of the solution. Nothing will stop all drug issues at school, but having an SRO on site could help stop the pipeline or, at least, make kids think twice and make healthier decisions.

As someone who works at a school with SROs: it does none of those things. They just know not to do their thing in the bathrooms closest to the SRO office.

And some kids aren’t doing drugs bc SRos are there. Waiting to get “all” won’t help. Let’s at least get to deterring “some”.

This is 0% true. The SROs are not in the bathroom. The kids don’t even know who the SRO is. People like you are absolutely clueless about reality. Rather than focus on the real issue you just want to spend imaginary money to fill the school with more people who can’t fix the problem themselves. Delusional.