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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I read the letter as being a student who attended Justice HS. This post reads as though it occurred AT Justice HS. Very sad incident none the less but the Title of this post is incorrect.[/quote]

What does the law require to be reported, I wonder.  ANY overdose of a student or only if it occurs at school?  I would think the latter only, but who knows.[/quote]

Republican Governor Glen Youngkin passed a law requiring county school systems to notify parents of every drug overdose.

Prior administrations failed to notify, and just astro-turfed the issue so parents would not know.

THANK YOU, Governor Youngkin, for taking steps to help school children and parents in the Commonwealth.[/quote]

Your head is buried in the sand if you didn't think you need to talk to your kids about drugs and drinking until after the EO was passed. ODs, drunk driving, and teen pregnancies have been a thing for an awful long time. Drunk Driving was the big issue at my school in the 80's, 5 kids were killed in a month time span in the neighboring town. I had classmates who were suspended for being passed out drunk at high school dances. Drugs were present but it was more weed than anything.

The opioid crisis has been a known issue for at least the last 15 years. Fentanyl has made the opioid crisis even more severe. Now you have weed and counterfeit prescription drugs that are laced with fentanyl, which is why we are seeing the ODs. Enough people are ODing that you can buy Narcan at the grocery store and kids are allowed to carry it at school. They can't carry advil but they can carry narcan.

I don't need Youngkin's EO because I watch the news and understand that teens experiment. The difference is that experimenting today is far different then experimenting when I was in the 80's. The drugs are stronger and the lacing of drugs with deadly substances is far more prevalent.

It says more about you that you needed these emails then anything. [/quote]

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