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Fentanyl was killing their friends – and no one was talking about it. So these teens stepped up
As fake pills send teen overdose deaths skyrocketing, these high schoolers are filling an information void with films and peer-to-peer education
Eli Myers was only 15 when his close friend and classmate Chloe Kreutzer died from taking a counterfeit Percocet pill filled with fentanyl.
Initially, he said, the response from officials at his Los Angeles high school was stony silence. Even years later, the information he and his classmates got about the risks of fentanyl poisoning amounted to little more than a droning lecture in health class, he said.
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