Amid a rapidly growing fentanyl crisis among young people, Mt. Diablo Unified School District held a first-of-its-kind fentanyl awareness event Monday night to educate students and parents.
Mt. Diablo Unified School District held a first-of-its-kind fentanyl awareness event Monday night for students and parents.It might be the middle of summer, but on Monday night, dozens of people packed the gym at Ignacio Valley High School in Concord. All of them there to take part in a first-of-its-kind"We have Narcan on our middle school and high school campuses and we've had to administer it to save our students lives," said Linda Pete.
Pete is the assistant director of student services for Mt. Diablo Unified School District. She says in recent times, four of their students have died as a result of overdoses.Fentanyl-related deaths among children increased more than 30-fold between 2013 and 2021 "All the schools, you can see a lot of drugs. We don't know. We don't see it. And even the administrators aren't aware of what's going on," said Alex Hernandez, who has two students in the school.
The fentanyl crisis is widespread. Since 2019, fentanyl deaths have tripled here in California. And increasingly more and more of those cases are among young people.A good idea that helps to de-stigmatize a problem that's touched so many communities around the Bay Area, says recent graduate Emily Mutchie.
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