Thursday, October 26, 2017

You Can Save a Life Today

You can save a life today...your child's, a friend's, maybe your own. We can't 'see' every hazard and we don't appreciate hidden risks. 

An area police officer shared this with me yesterday. A regional tenth grade student died after smoking marijuana...which had presumably been laced with Fentanyl, the powerful synthetic narcotic behind many opioid deaths. Fentanyl is cheap, deadly, and traces can kill you by stopping your breathing. 

I asked him whether he ever has to administer Narcan, the antidote for opioid overdoses. He answered, "almost every week." Don't let ignorance kill our children, friends, or you. 

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