Mother Who Lost Son to Fentanyl Speaks Out
Between September and February, nine students from these schools, ranging in age from 13 to 17, overdosed. Three died. One 14-year-old girl survived after overdosing twice and was temporarily paralyzed.
“I didn't want to believe it, I thought he was playing with me, I thought it was one of his jokes, but no, it was true,” she said. “Two milligrams is considered a lethal dose. Two milligrams can fit on the tip of a pencil,” Chavez said. “There’s no such thing as experimentation with these pills.” “Pills, I think, overall, are a very disarming sort of thing. You get weaned off of liquid medications and liquid vitamins when you are maybe eight or nine years old and your parents are teaching you how to take a vitamin or an antibiotic,” he said. “And so, to see a pill, it is not the same perhaps in any of our minds as it is for someone to pull out a shard of methamphetamine. So I think for all of those reasons there’s a misperception of the ability for it to harm you.
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