Hays CISD and the Kyle Police Department are asking parents to talk with their kids about fentanyl after three students have died from suspected overdoses this year.
. School and city officials are now calling this a crisis as this continues to affect more and more children.has responded to at least 16 fentanyl-related overdoses just in 2022 with seven resulting in death. He claims that many of the overdoses are teenagers.
"We're talking about children as young as 14 years old and that's challenging on these officers as they arrive, and they're doing CPR on 14-year-olds with no other explained medical emergency other than a drug induced situation that they're in," said Chief Barnett."There are three kids out there, it's their parents and families' worst day ever," San Marcos, Hays County EMS Jim Swisher said.
On August 20, a 15-year-old Hays CISD high school sophomore died from a suspected fentanyl overdose. Earlier this summer, two additional 17-year-old high school seniors on separate occasions also passed away from a suspected overdose. "When you have one student death, it breaks your heart and, you know, at that point that the fentanyl crisis has hit home. When you have a second student death, you start to worry, but when you have your third student death, then that's a crisis," said Tim Savoy, Chief Communications Officer for Hays CISD.. "This is indeed a crisis situation and we need to educate the public," said Superintendent Eric Wright.
"Don't bend to peer pressure, be aware of what you're picking up and putting in your body because it's not all good, and it could end in something that you weren't expecting such as death and leave behind a loving family that's going to miss you forever," Gray said.
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