Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:32     Subject: Re:another near fatal overdose(s) for APS..3/1/23
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?

This is such an ignorant post.


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).


Well it doesn't mirror National data and it certainly won't be confined to that population at the rate it's growing.

Nationwide:
Seventy-nine percent of individuals who overdose on opioids are non-Hispanic White, 10% are Black and non-Hispanic, and 8% are Hispanic


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.


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.


Thank you for clarifying. Posters obviously have the opioid crisis mixed up with fetanyl drug crisis.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:31     Subject: Re:another near fatal overdose(s) for APS..3/1/23
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?

This is such an ignorant post.


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).


Well it doesn't mirror National data and it certainly won't be confined to that population at the rate it's growing.

Nationwide:
Seventy-nine percent of individuals who overdose on opioids are non-Hispanic White, 10% are Black and non-Hispanic, and 8% are Hispanic


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.


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.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:30     Subject: another near fatal overdose(s) for APS..3/1/23
Time to bring scared straight back into schools.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:29     Subject: another near fatal overdose(s) for APS..3/1/23
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This country does not give a damn about families. Kids are dying left and right from opioids and nobody is doing anything about it!


What can the county do about it? Where are the parents monitoring their kids who skipped school?


That would be fine EXCEPT the investigation to the fatal overdose in school found that administration and staff often knew some students were high on something during the day, but did not report the behavior or any suspicion to parents. Kids were using in school. It was well known, just like the kids vaping.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:24     Subject: Re:another near fatal overdose(s) for APS..3/1/23
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?

This is such an ignorant post.


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).


Well it doesn't mirror National data and it certainly won't be confined to that population at the rate it's growing.

Nationwide:
Seventy-nine percent of individuals who overdose on opioids are non-Hispanic White, 10% are Black and non-Hispanic, and 8% are Hispanic


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.


I talked to ACPD recently. We often have drunks/crime because we live close to the bars- so they are out often. They are seeing epidemic levels of opioid/fentanyl in the County. And, no, it's not confined to lower income here in AC is what was relayed to me.


Fentanyl-involved deaths are fastest growing among 14-23 year olds and they can be in the form of rainbow colored pills that look like candy. It's getting into the other demographic populations.

And, HHI kids are getting what they think is prescription ADHD drugs and other stimulants (buying off their phone) and they end up being fatal doses of a counterfit laced with fetanyl. They are getting this sometimes from friends.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:21     Subject: Re:another near fatal overdose(s) for APS..3/1/23
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?

This is such an ignorant post.


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).


Well it doesn't mirror National data and it certainly won't be confined to that population at the rate it's growing.

Nationwide:
Seventy-nine percent of individuals who overdose on opioids are non-Hispanic White, 10% are Black and non-Hispanic, and 8% are Hispanic


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.


I talked to ACPD recently. We often have drunks/crime because we live close to the bars- so they are out often. They are seeing epidemic levels of opioid/fentanyl in the County. And, no, it's not confined to lower income here in AC is what was relayed to me.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:16     Subject: Re:another near fatal overdose(s) for APS..3/1/23
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?

This is such an ignorant post.


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).


Well it doesn't mirror National data and it certainly won't be confined to that population at the rate it's growing.

Nationwide:
Seventy-nine percent of individuals who overdose on opioids are non-Hispanic White, 10% are Black and non-Hispanic, and 8% are Hispanic


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.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:14     Subject: another near fatal overdose(s) for APS..3/1/23
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:This country does not give a damn about families. Kids are dying left and right from opioids and nobody is doing anything about it!


What can the county do about it? Where are the parents monitoring their kids who skipped school?


APS now sends out texts if your kid is missing class. Parents should know in pretty close to real time it's happening.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:12     Subject: another near fatal overdose(s) for APS..3/1/23
Anonymous wrote:This country does not give a damn about families. Kids are dying left and right from opioids and nobody is doing anything about it!


What can the county do about it? Where are the parents monitoring their kids who skipped school?
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:10     Subject: Re:another near fatal overdose(s) for APS..3/1/23
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?


We don’t know who these kids were, but you do realize there are a lot of lower income apartments whose residents feed in W-L, right? The school is pretty diverse racially and socio-economically.


If you think this won't hit the rich white crowd or hasn't already, you are a HUGE part of the problem.


+1 It is also insanely difficult to get good treatment for opioid addiction even if you have money. I have a good friend with kids in an affluent NoVA school who has been struggling with this with one of her kids for YEARS. Just finding a good facility for treatment of teens is extremely difficult. There are not enough and most of them that do exist do not provide long enough residential treatment. This is not an easy, just-say-no, more-discipline fix. It is heartbreaking. And that for someone who has the money to be able to pay for what treatment they can find. For a family without resources, there is nothing effective.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:09     Subject: Re:another near fatal overdose(s) for APS..3/1/23
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?


This has to be a joke. The most UMC suburb near my hometown repeatedly made national news because so many kids OD'ed on heroin in the 90s. You're kidding yourself if you think your HHI or 401k balance means your kid is impervious to national trends, peer pressure, addiction, anything really.


+1,000,000

I know so many APS parents that have such a frickin' disconnect from what is really happening with their teens and their friends. The same entitled and impervious attitude.

Watch 'Traffic" its a lot like the drug Czar's daughter in the rich white school/neighborhood.

My cousin from Greenwich, CT had to be sent to a treatment center in high school, Greenwich High School.[/quote]

I grew up in CT. There is no where MORE likely to have drug overdoses and kids going to treatment centers than Greenwich.
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:05     Subject: Re:another near fatal overdose(s) for APS..3/1/23
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?

This is such an ignorant post.


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).


The article in the original post mentioned groups of students skipping school and drinking alcohol. Also confined to a certain group?

I'm curious how every bleeding heart in APS just writes it off as: well its the Hispanics. The same people that wax poetically at how proud they are to send their kids to schools with such diversity.

Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 16:01     Subject: Re:another near fatal overdose(s) for APS..3/1/23
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?

This is such an ignorant post.


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).


Well it doesn't mirror National data and it certainly won't be confined to that population at the rate it's growing.

Nationwide:
Seventy-nine percent of individuals who overdose on opioids are non-Hispanic White, 10% are Black and non-Hispanic, and 8% are Hispanic
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 15:59     Subject: Re:another near fatal overdose(s) for APS..3/1/23
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:How do parents who’d have kids who do this stuff afford Arlington?

This is such an ignorant post.


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).
Anonymous
Post 03/01/2023 15:54     Subject: Re:another near fatal overdose(s) for APS..3/1/23
The rich white YHS, WL parents send their teens to the in-house treatment center in Ballston to overcome their drug addictions. It's all repressed and hush-hush.

Somebody has their head in the sand if they can't see this stuff is all over the public schools w/teens right now.