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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]What happens at an apartment isn't ACPS' fault. But don't forget that there was an OD at ACHS just a few weeks ago.

NP here. I agree but the attitude towards ODs in Alexandria is really off the rails. There is a ton of denial that it can’t happen to them (similar to my kids don’t see fights at school bc they’re in all (self-selected) honors classes so they’re somehow immune). For ex: I’m in an Alexandria spin off Buy Nothing group on fb where someone was asking how to get Narcan in Alexandria. Poster was saying they knew the city had a program where one is supposedly able to just walk into any pharmacy or email the DOH or call a number to get it for free and was running into road block after road block (such as pharmacy was out of Narcan, or pharmacy refused to give it to poster bc only a designated person was allowed to distribute and they weren’t there, no one answered the DOH number and the poster had emailed the DOH email but after several days got no response). So after asking for help on this particular BN (which is exactly for these kind of questions, it’s a spin-off group), some posters wanted to know why poster needed it to which they replied they had teens and it was recommended to them that they should have it just in case and plus all these teens were ODing. And the responses went off the rails. People were adamant there was a Narcan shortage and that Narcan is ONLY for addicts and that by this poster getting this Narcan they were denying it for an addict and contributing it to their potential death. Then it was suggested that if they just talked to their teen about the dangers of taking drugs that they wouldn’t need Narcan bc then their teen wouldn’t take it.

The thread was crazy. The OP had a lot of support but it was eye opening that many people just think it will never affect them, happen to them, probably bc they’re UMC and white.

This is Alexandria. BTW the kid who died in Arlington was 14, in 9th grade, took a Percocet laced with fentanyl.[/quote]

I have many, many issue with ACPS and Alexandria, but the problem of kids using drugs and ODing is a nation-wide crisis.  I have friends from law school in multiple cities throughout the U.S. and they are all noticing the same issue.[/quote]

Correct. So what is your point? [/quote]

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