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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I came late  to this thread, did someone at the school administer narcan? I thought that was a pretty reliable antidote to fentanyl overdose. I hope all schools have narcan readily available. [/quote]

I dont think it has ever been confirmed it was fentanyl (you can OD on reg percocet or opiods or stimulants or cough syrup. But anyway, narcan doesn't always work and obviously needs to be administered timely in order to work at all. We have no idea how long the kid was down. [/quote]

This is the big problem: we in the school have no idea how long a kid has been affected. They’re being found in the bathroom after being gone a long time and some kid sees them or an adult goes to check. I never let kids sleep in my class for this very reason, but at my school, twice kids have only been discovered to be in severe medical distress (needing narcan and chest compressions) after people assumed they were sleeping and didn’t rouse them. I tell my students all the time, I do not know what is in your body. If you can’t stay awake in my class, I need you to go nap with the nurse. It’s not a game anymore. And yes schools have narcan but I need you to realize we are at an absolute crisis when teachers and school staff now have to be expected to regularly administer life saving narcotic medications to students. Like this is a dystopia. School as you know it is a dead institution; what we are working with is some bizarre ghost ship that claims to be School but functions as a completely different thing now. As a teacher it is honestly impossible to even process what the hell has happened to schools. [/quote]

Thank you for this post - I never thought of that. I'm sorry that teaching has turned into this for you. [/quote]

It is terrible for us and the kids. We were given CPR face shields as a staff last week because people might have to administer CPR in their classroom but also be worried about breathing in air from the child they’re giving chest compressions to. And the reason we were told WE might have to administer CPR is this is an event that happens frequently enough that it is very likely we could call to the nurse for an emergency in our room and she is already responding to another emergency in another room and it’s on us. This is why we were also told to get narcan doses to keep in our bags. The kids are so used to seeing ambulances roll up or our school go into a “hold” for a medical emergency that they just go “oh someone OD’d” and don’t believe us even when we say it could be lots of different things that aren’t an OD. The kid is back at school a few days later and the band plays on and on. And oh yeah, we’re supposed to somehow make kids feel safe and able to learn in this environment. [/quote]

Are you a teacher at Wakefield?  [/quote]

No. I am a teacher at another area high school. We are all dealing with this very same thing though to varying degrees. It’s probably worse at my school than Wakefield but none of these high schools are immune to this, not the wealthiest nor the poorest. The kids do not understand how the game has changed w/r/t popping pills. Their brains developmentally actually can’t process the real risk and how vulnerable they are to one bad pill. [/quote]

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