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| Melanie Ramos, 15, died of fentanyl poisoning from pills police say were bought in Lexington Park and are suspected in other recent overdoses. (Courtesy Ramos Family/GoFundMe). |
Barely a month into the school year, seven students in the Los Angeles Unified School District have overdosed from pills laced with Fentanyl, possibly all coming from the same source in the area of Bernstein and Hollywood high schools and Lexington Park, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
The most recent of these overdoses were a 15-year-old boy found by his mother in their Hollywood home on Saturday. As the Los Angeles Times reports, police responded to a call about the hospitalization of a minor and discovered that the boy had ingested what he thought was a quarter-pill of Percocet, though police believe the pill was possibly laced with Fentanyl. While this student was able to receive treatment and is expected to survive, not all the teens were as lucky.
Melanie Ramos and her friend, both 15, took the pills and were found on the Bernstein High School campus last Tuesday. Ramos was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics while her friend survived.
LAPD Chief Michel Moore stated, “It speaks to impurities of street narcotics… Fentanyl is a very dangerous drug, and this dosage can range from being a painkiller to a depressant to death.” Moore confirmed that the 10 pills police confiscated last week during the arrest of a 15-year-old boy on suspicion of manslaughter—described by Moore as “crude blue M30 pills”—tested positive for fentanyl.
Though police have identified and arrested that teen and another on possible manslaughter charges, Moore stated, “We’re not pursuing any type of criminal charge against the people who have taken illicit drugs and are suffering from their effect… We want to identify the purveyor. If there’s a student, then there’s an adult and a drug trade organization that’s engaged in the marketing and distribution.”
Families from across the district have called for anyone involved with the distribution of the pills to be held accountable. “I’m angry that these kids had got ahold of these pills and decided to distribute them at school knowing what this can do to somebody… There’s somebody connected to them and somebody hired them,” Gladys Manriques, a relative of Ramos, told reporters. “We want [the district] to take us into consideration. Don’t leave us just reading whatever we see in the news… I think we deserve to be informed. I think we can do better on that. We have a million questions that haven’t been answered.”
Source Los Angeles Magazine
The most recent of these overdoses were a 15-year-old boy found by his mother in their Hollywood home on Saturday. As the Los Angeles Times reports, police responded to a call about the hospitalization of a minor and discovered that the boy had ingested what he thought was a quarter-pill of Percocet, though police believe the pill was possibly laced with Fentanyl. While this student was able to receive treatment and is expected to survive, not all the teens were as lucky.
Melanie Ramos and her friend, both 15, took the pills and were found on the Bernstein High School campus last Tuesday. Ramos was pronounced dead at the scene by paramedics while her friend survived.
LAPD Chief Michel Moore stated, “It speaks to impurities of street narcotics… Fentanyl is a very dangerous drug, and this dosage can range from being a painkiller to a depressant to death.” Moore confirmed that the 10 pills police confiscated last week during the arrest of a 15-year-old boy on suspicion of manslaughter—described by Moore as “crude blue M30 pills”—tested positive for fentanyl.
Though police have identified and arrested that teen and another on possible manslaughter charges, Moore stated, “We’re not pursuing any type of criminal charge against the people who have taken illicit drugs and are suffering from their effect… We want to identify the purveyor. If there’s a student, then there’s an adult and a drug trade organization that’s engaged in the marketing and distribution.”
Families from across the district have called for anyone involved with the distribution of the pills to be held accountable. “I’m angry that these kids had got ahold of these pills and decided to distribute them at school knowing what this can do to somebody… There’s somebody connected to them and somebody hired them,” Gladys Manriques, a relative of Ramos, told reporters. “We want [the district] to take us into consideration. Don’t leave us just reading whatever we see in the news… I think we deserve to be informed. I think we can do better on that. We have a million questions that haven’t been answered.”
Source Los Angeles Magazine
This is a result of doctors no longer prescribing 10mg Norco and taking 5mg/7.5mg Vicodin off the market..
ReplyDeletePeople especially young kids in or just out of high school are going to use opiates regardless. I know I and most my friend experimented with them, but if there’s no other option availbile but fake 30s.
Kids are going to continue dying.
why did they stop prescribing those
DeleteWell yes but more specifically, them overly cracking down on oxycodone (and all medical opioids) around 2013/2014 which led to the heroin use wave of the mid 2010s which was the second wave of the opioid epidemic but still heaven compared to what we have now. At this point fentanyl has brought the opioid crisis to almost dystopian levels.
Delete@11:42am; true - but it was also politicians, FDA and deterrence from DEA investigations that enabled these stakeholders to make boo koo bucks for 20 years and literally create a generation of addicts and orphaned children in their own country….the good ole USofA.
Delete12:06 Because they were being really dumb in the late 90s and early 2000s about advising their patients on the risks and how often they should really be taking them. People bitch about the drug companies lying in the actual studies therefore ‘it couldn’t have been the doctors’ fault’.. Bullshit, they’re doctors. They would and should know pharmacologically these things have to be as addictive and risky as morphine or heroin. These are just morphine derivatives. I understand that the drug companies lied but my point has always been that it’s just not a believable lie in the first place. Wouldn’t have fooled me, and I’m no doctor. This isn’t like the early or mid 20th century or something, this is the modern age (even back then) and any trained medical professional worth their salt would’ve scoffed at such claims of non-addictiveness. And idk, many doctors have always just been sloppy and unnuanced in their approaches and treatment of psychoactive drugs like Adderall, benzos, opioids, etc. It’s a blind spot for many doctors so they just make them super hard to get for patients now because they just assume that the patients are automatically even dumber than the docs on this and will more than likely abuse them and take them too much. It’s really them just oversimplifying the problem and doing the wrong thing but with seemingly ‘good’ intentions.
Delete12:25- really? Brother your delusional if your that naive.
Delete1:13 I am definitely about the furthest you could possibly be from “naïve“ when it comes to this topic so please tell me one single thing I said that was incorrect. Be specific too so that I can properly school you.
Delete1:13- “Because they were being really dumb in the late 90s and early 2000s about advising their patients on the risks and how often they should really be taking them.”
Delete2:52 Ok what about it? That’s true and did happen. Doctors incorrectly advised the patients on how much and how often they should be used because they took the lies and studies from the drug companies at face value like the dunces they are. Obviously many doctors who were well versed did not fall for it at the time. Maybe if this was in the 1950s or even 70s I would let it slide but by the mid to late 90s people with medical backgrounds tended to know this very basic information pertaining to narcotic drugs/opioid receptor agonists. It’s one thing to disagree but to suggest nativity is an insane disconnection from reality and is clearly a disingenuous claim. You should just come out and state your full opinion before I have to uncomfortably guess what it is.
Delete3:15 - Hey naive Nelly.
DeleteYour a joke so stop the coke.
Using the word "dystopian" is not accurate here, I think post-apocalyptic better fits the situation.
Delete4:34 I don’t use coke but nice lack of a a counterargument. No one even knows your point
Delete@4:34 you’re embarrassing the absolute shit out of yourself lol
DeleteOK 4:47....since you and everyone want to hear my point lol. Your argument is flawed after sentence 1 of your 12:25 reply; "Because they were being really dumb in the late 90s and early 2000s about advising their patients on the risks and how often they should really be taking them".
Delete1 - By definition, becoming a doctor would imply someone is not dumb; and certainly most doctors.
2 - For thousands of years, the medical profession has regulated its conduct through the Oath of Hippocrates, and the CDC published in 1999 a rapid increase of opioid deaths. Ignorance is not an excuse for citizens of the US and certainly not for a licensed physician.
3. In 2006 the DEA was even attempting to investigate "diversion" of prescribed opioids but thanks to politician pressure from pharma; the DEA was pressured to cease investigation. If apparent in early 2000s to DEA there is no excuse for ignorance, or "dumb"ness from licensed physicians.
Have a great weekend 4:47 and I'll take away the "coke" implication. We cool :)
How many more kids have to die, for Mexico president to take action, against Cartels producing Fentanyl. Yes I am aware, he is going full throttle on Sinaloa cartel drug labs, but the other Cartels labs are not being touched. CJNG had a free pass, to do whatever they want.
ReplyDeleteHe would have to revive poppy farming operations somehow or provide more incentive to stick to that.
DeleteSurprised they don’t have big signs and posters around the halls of public schools these days saying something simple like “Don’t take these” with a big picture of a fentanyl pill (fake perc) in the background. It should be prime-time mainstream news and talk that these are all just fentanyl pills at this point.
ReplyDeleteAnd that posters in public schools idea is totally something they would’ve done in the 70s or 80s when we were slightly more practical despite our unrealistic goals. Back then it seems like we were at least willing to have the DISCUSSION of being open to new or different approaches to drugs. What we were trying out was new at the time, hence the almost blind faith people had in it. People don’t have novel views anymore, they just parrot the rhetoric of past decades. But even those past decades didn’t really do that as much as we do now. Our modern generation seems exponentially more guilty than past generations on this. Embarrassing.
Hate to say it but these kids Should know better by now. Streets pills are fentanyl. If you’re still Taking street pills you must be stupid or want to die. Should be taught in every school but we all know the US educational system absolutely sucks.
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DeleteMalanie Rios funeral is coming by, would you like to attend the Funeral, she lived to only be 16. Fentanyl does not discriminate.
12:20- True but “kids” should have known for the last 50 years not to huff gasoline, spray paint and glue but we now have generations of brain dead adults and new “kids” huffing. Without drug education and mental health support, children will seek relief from pain using the logic and rationale that a “kid” has.
Delete1:18 I think I lost double digit IQ points reading your comment
DeleteTeen enthusiasm for opioids will drop during the 2020s from these past months on, mark my words. In the coming rest of the decade adolescents will shift their focus to something else. The same demographics will be pushed to something like ketamine, coke or some kind of efficacious and euphoric downer. Xanax isn’t enough and Valium is more of a U.K. thing unless you got one 10mg pill saved from the dentist. Something will have to fill that void and unfortunately you currently have fentanyl or nothing. I mean who remembers the last time pain pills and normal H was this hard to get? It’s kinda unprecedented.
ReplyDeleteIt's actually been increasing.
DeletePeople should stick to the monas, de guayaba...
Delete7:18 For teens? There’s no evidence for that. Plus I was mostly talking about in a future context; like as in the coming months/years. Teen opioid use is still less now overall than it was 10 years ago. The people using fent are those in their 20s and 30s mostly. Kids can’t get their hands on shit besides fentanyl these days (just like the rest of us) which is why enthusiasm and hype over them is absolutely dropping. That’s not even debatable honestly. And it’s not even just teens. Enthusiasm for and faith in the current state of the opioid market could not be lower right now. People aren’t basking in the opioid market. They miss it. Only the most desperate are using and settling for fent. This was not the case at all even 7 years ago.
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DeleteThe evidence, which does exist, demonstrates fentanyl use has been increasing among teens.
Yes. In Phoenix kids are all over the place homeless stuck on blues. You can buy them $1 per pill.
DeleteChairman XI cheers the success of his asymmetrical war against America. chairman XI says you destabilized my country with your opium and it's time for payback! AMLO and Madero joins the asymmetrical war by flooding America with deadly, societal destabilizing drugs and border-jumpers! Reports now Madero is emptying prisons, like Fidel did during the Mariel boat invasion and sending them to America! People and countries have long memories and have a joy in vengeance!
ReplyDeleteThis is someone who has a knowledge of history ! The tables have turned against the West ! The Chinese Communist Government will never forget the " Century of Humilitaion"
DeleteChinese MSS (Security Inteligence Service ) is attacking the USA with Cyber warfare ,helping the Cartels flood America with Fent and Meth,and funding hate groups like BLM as well as using Fast Flag operations against America .
DeleteLearn to read and write Mandarin and Cantonese ! The USA will no longer be #1 Superpower
Actually, the majority of people who try drugs don't get addicted so your beloved chairman needs to go back to the drawing board.
Delete40 years later and the emptying if prisons achieved exactly what? Nothing. Learn your history accurately.
DeleteThis is someone who has a knowledge of history…tou made my day buddy with this stupid BS.
DeleteA few years ago there was only a few each year and 7 in just weeks. Within a decade it will 70 students dying from drugs each month! The empire in terminal collapse!
ReplyDeleteBig Nuts Truther, there's no excuse for that unsubstantiated and false statement, if you're trolling fine but the actual numbers are much, much higher.
DeleteHow about sending 100% fentanyl into the mix, it will all be over in about 6 months.
ReplyDeleteI've lost two of my best friends to this bullshit
ReplyDeleteRight? People wanted to bitch about oxycodone but most normal people didn’t know anyone who died because of some oxy pill mill express. Everyone seems to knows one or more people dropped by fentanyl though. It’s transcended demographics.
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ReplyDeleteI wished the people would not do pills but alcohol. That would be nice, all drunk as a skunk and armed to the teeth. Who m would they blame then, Colt firearms and miller beer?
ReplyDeleteThe problem really boils down to letting kids have bowl cuts like the one pictured. They want to escape from reality.
ReplyDeleteKid want to have a movie life or something like those music videos or songs. But sound disappears and life ain't like movies.
ReplyDeleteOnda ain't with that I say chale
ReplyDeleteIn the News it says LAUSD schools, will now have Narcan available for students overdosing on drugs. Alittle to late for Melanie Ramos.
ReplyDeleteInstead of blaming the drug pushers how about people teach there kids to not do drugs. Supply and demand!
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