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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?[/quote]
This is such an ignorant post. [/quote]

It is completely ignorant, but as a HS ELL teacher in FCPS, the fentanyl issue is hitting the Hispanic community especially hard.  It’s true at my own school as well at other schools in the area (ex. The student from Wakefield). [/quote]

Well it doesn't mirror National data and it certainly won't be confined to that population at the rate it's growing.

Nationwide:
[b]Seventy-nine percent of individuals who overdose on opioids are non-Hispanic Whit[/b]e, 10% are Black and non-Hispanic, and 8% are Hispanic [/quote]

Studies link opioid overdoses to lower income people.  So far it's been a lot of lower income white people (who no one in Arlington cared about but been going on for a long time).  Arlington doesn't have that many lower income white people.[/quote]

I talked to ACPD recently.  We often have drunks/crime because we live close to the bars- so they are out often.  They are seeing epidemic levels of opioid/fentanyl in the County.  And, no, it's not confined to lower income here in AC is what was relayed to me.[/quote]

Fentanyl-involved deaths are fastest growing among 14-23 year olds and they can be in the form of rainbow colored pills that look like candy.  It's getting into the other demographic populations.

And, HHI kids are getting what they think is prescription ADHD drugs and other stimulants (buying off their phone) and they end up being fatal doses of a counterfit laced with fetanyl.  They are getting this sometimes from friends.[/quote]

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