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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

That isn't what happened. Parents of the school the kids attended were notified. For some reason people think they have a right to know what goes on in every single school in the district they attend. So now we get this vague EO that does nothing. How did this EO improve your life? What are you doing differently due to this EO. Were you not planning to talk to your kids about drugs until this school told you they existed and were deadly? Can you only talk to your kids if the government lets you know something is going on?

Are you planning on helping the families who have lost kids or who have kids struggling with addiction. PLEASE tell me how this improved your parenting or helped the children struggling with addiction. [/quote]

I cannot tell if you just enjoy being on a soap box or you are just ignorant.  Of course notices like this prompt parents to have conversations with their kids.  And it helps kids have conversations with their parents.  No information was given out.  And yes, it helps people be more proactive with talking to their kids.   Maybe it does not impact you at all, but it helps others.  It might even safe a life.  [/quote]

[b]People know about these things.[/b] If they don't an email isn't going to be their saving grace and newsflash it doesn't really matter what you say to your kids they will do what they want.

My parents talked to me about drugs a million times and I went through DARE and saw all those "this is your brain on drugs" commercials. None of it worked. I still did drugs and still got addicted.

We could do things that really matter lile provide adequate mental health services and drug addiction programs. But we send emails. [/quote]

DP. I'm sorry you fell through the cracks. What would have worked? Surely parents must first be aware of the problem? You say people know about these things, but I'm not sure all of them are. Some are totally socially unconnected and clueless. In order to get kids into drug addiction programs, don't their family need to be aware first in order to take them to one? [/quote]

Yes, of course families need to be aware of programs to get their kid into one. BUT as far as I am aware the school isn't advising parents when their kid has a current drug problem and needs rehab unless something happened to them already. I am not even sure if the school is providing information about where parents can find help. I know the state isn't providing any additional resources for kids to get into these programs or to pay for these programs. The current system of notifying just really doesn't solve any of these problems.

I don't know that I feel through the cracks. I mean i did drugs because they are amazing, and they make you feel amazing. Of course, I KNEW i could die. I figured it would not happen to me and the drugs feel so amazing that I probably (at the time) considered it a worthwhile risk. And of course, once you are addicted you aren't making that kind of rational thought anymore. [/quote]

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