Fentanyl-related teen overdose deaths nearly tripled from 2019 to 2021. As the school year gets under way, families in mourning urge education leaders to respond.
A different ballgame because many students aren't intentionally seeking out the deadly drug they're overdosing on.with his wife, Mary. They use social media to inform teens about fentanyl-laced counterfeit prescription pills.
He says they've learned from consulting with experts in youth mental health and drug education that the"just say no" message of the past isn't an effective way to communicate with teenagers. Instead, they craft fact-based messages they hope teenagers will actually pay attention to. "He actually took it a couple hours before he was supposed to have a job interview on the phone," Ternan says."And so he died very quickly in his room at his frat house waiting for the phone to ring at about four o'clock on a Thursday afternoon."
Where they are is on social media. Ternan and his wife funneled their grief into action; they founded their nonprofit and partnered withTernan says their messages also appeal to teenagers' strong social bonds. He's learned that telling teens to warn their friends about fentanyl is more powerful than stoking fear of their own harm.there were bystanders present at two thirds of teen overdose deaths.
"I think the Fentanyl crisis is an inflection point in our national conversation about drugs," Ternan explains."It's forced us to look in the mirror and acknowledge our shortcomings and say we got to do better."
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