Fentanyl Was Killing Their Friends – and No One Was Talking About It. So These Teens Stepped Up
Last Updated: Thursday September 19, 2024
(The Guardian) Eli Myers was only 15 when his close friend and classmate Chloe Kreutzer died from taking a counterfeit Percocet pill filled with fentanyl.
Initially, he said, the response from officials at his Los Angeles high school was stony silence. Even years later, the information he and his classmates got about the risks of fentanyl poisoning amounted to little more than a droning lecture in health class, he said.
The same thing happened at Kyle Santoro’s northern California high school, when a student was found overdosing in a bathroom and was revived by the principal with Narcan.
“Our school never talked about it,” said Santoro, who said the student had just disappeared from campus and most students never even knew what happened.