Last year, 21-year-old Tiffany Iler of Broadview Heights, along with another student, died during finals after investigators and toxicology reports stated fentanyl was found in their systems.
COLUMBUS, Ohio — With a new school year underway, health leaders are sounding the alarm about fentanyl as many parts of the country anticipate seeing a record number of accidental overdose deaths in 2023 tied to the powerful opioid.
“When [Tiffany] walked into a room, it’s like the lights went on,” father Rich Iler reminisced about his daughter. “She had this personality. She was on the path to helping people. I don’t want to see any parent go through this. It has destroyed our family.” An investigation by Columbus Police details how fentanyl was present in a bag found inside an OSU library and those who found it believed it to be the study aid Adderall.
“When your child goes off to college, at least my view is, the #1 priority is the child’s safety and #2 is to get a good education,” Iler said. “If you can’t do #1, #2 doesn’t really matter.”In Summit County, Health Commissioner Donna Skoda explained they have already seen an unconfirmed 163 accidental overdose deaths in 2023 across the county, surpassing the total of 155 during the same stretch in 2022. She said 80% of the preliminary accidental overdose deaths this year are tied to fentanyl.
“Fentanyl is dose-related, so if you’ve been using drugs a long time, you can probably tolerate it a little more,” Skoda explained. “But if you haven’t been using it and you take it for the first time, which happens to a lot of people, you can end up dead if you don’t get revived with Narcan.”
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