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[quote=Anonymous][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]

These studies are about the opioid epidemic of the last decades - prescription drug overdose.  Can begin with a legitimate medical problem; back pain, accident, recovery after surgery… combined with other problems… then gettting prescriptions from several different sources, lying about losing prescriptions etc. etc.

What we are dealing with in the schools is different; Fentanyl laced fake pills.  None of these are from prescribed sources, all are entirely illegal and serve no medical purpose.[/quote]

Yep, that’s how my mom got hooked- a car accident after which she was prescribed pain pills. She died in her 50s from substance abuse. [/quote]
This is a complete failure of physicians and pharma.[/quote]

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