When fentanyl hit R.L. Turner High School, the staff fought to save the kids they could. It took Narcan, drug-sniffing dogs, handcuffs and granola bars.
Carrollton Police School Resource Officer Nik Stefanovic headed to the school clinic to visit with school nurse Heather Hays at R.L. Turner High School in Carrollton on Sept. 12. Stefanovic and Hays had a firsthand experience of the fentanyl crisis after a girl overdosed in a restroom earlier this year. They used naloxone, an opioid overdose antidote nasal spray, to save her life.
In late October, an assistant principal ushered a familiar kid to her door for a drug assessment. They searched the student’s pockets and pulled out a wadded dollar bill, with crushed powder inside.It was here. She wasn’t surprised. “A 14-year-old thinks they’re invincible, that they’re not going to die,” Hays said. “And that’s what this does. It kills them.”Advertisement
On his office computer, he replayed digital footage from the school’s 240 interior and 132 exterior cameras — which had been upgraded that summer — and found the last student she chatted with. Stefanovic dragged the kid from the cafeteria at lunch. The student said he’d given the girl a Perc, which he admitted was fentanyl in disguise.
and peddled them to classmates at Carrollton-Farmers Branch ISD schools: Turner High and Dewitt Perry and Dan F. Long middle schools.On Christmas Eve, a 14-year-old Turner student overdosed at home after taking a pill embossed with “M” and “30.” She was taken to a hospital and survived, later telling authorities her dealer was 16. About three weeks later — back from holiday break — the girl overdosed again. This time, she was hospitalized for days and temporarily paralyzed.
Days into the ice storm, with school still closed, Grinage was walking to the store to get hot chocolate when he got a call: The junior class clown was dead. An awful wave of devastation hit him. Grinage remembered relentlessly telling this student to take off his baseball cap and pull up his sagging pants. He was a jokester who could make anyone roar with laughter. But he was jaded. Staff had tried for years to intervene and get him drug counseling.
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