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to spread awareness of how dangerous and addictive fentanyl pills — also known as “the blues” — can be.
“You know how many kids I have coming on my TikTok telling me that they’re addicted to the blues?” he said. “You never expect kids already experimenting with synthetic opioids.”“Right now, it’s pretty much all that’s out there,” he said, adding that drugs like pure heroin are harder to find.
Friedman and Alaghamandan said that kids are going to keep experimenting with drugs. Preaching abstinence isn’t going to get far with a lot of kids, so drug education becomes vital.Alaghamandan suggests talking to a drug interventionist about how to open up to your parents or loved ones about using. “Listen. I’ve done something that I don’t really want to do. And I’m stuck. And I don’t know how to get out of it.
Friedman said distributing Narcan widely to teens and teaching them how to use it could help stop deaths. He recommended giving it out to teens to store in their car glove box. Learn the signs of an opioid overdose. “Someone during an overdose, their lips will turn blue, their breathing will slow down, they won’t be able to talk to you,” Friedman said.“This is a truly unprecedented health emergency in our country,” Friedman said. “And so we need to be able to equip teens to be on the front lines of solving the crisis.”Emily Elena Dugdale covers smaller police departments around Southern California, school safety officers, jails and prisons, and juvenile justice issues.
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