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About 100 bags of fentanyl were found in the bedroom of a 13-year-old boy who died from alleged exposure to fentanyl at his school.


Forty bags of fentanyl were also removed from students’ schools, according to police. According to a press release from the Hartford Police Department, both sets of bags were packaged the same way and marked with a similar stamp.

The teenager died on January 15, two days after he was found unconscious following an alleged fentanyl exposure at the Academy of Health and Sports Sciences.

Two other boys, also 7th graders, who were exposed to fentanyl at the same time were taken to hospital and later released, police said.

“We can say with confidence that fentanyl caused the overdose [of the juvenile] is the same fentanyl that was placed in a minor’s bedroom,” Hartford Police said in a statement.

Lieutenant Aaron Boisvert, Hartford police, said the bags were initially collected by the Drug Enforcement Administration and delivered to Hartford police for fingerprint and DNA testing.

Police found no evidence that anyone other than the child brought drugs to school, he added. Officials are still investigating how he got hold of the fentanyl.

Authorities have no suspects at this time, Boisvert told CNN.

The teen’s mother is cooperating with authorities, who have found no evidence that she knew in advance of her son’s fentanyl possession, the statement said.

According to the statement, the 13-year-old boy has no history of drug use.

The pandemic may have made America’s drug epidemic worse

Fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin and extremely cheap to manufacture Drug Enforcement Agency.
The drug epidemic in the US has explode while Americans are locked in the coronavirus pandemic.
For the first time, peak drug overdose deaths 100,000 annually, led by fentanyl, CDC data shows
From May 2020 to April 2021, more than 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the US, based on US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s a record – up almost 30% from a year earlier and almost double in the past five years. Synthetic opioids like fentanyl – 50-100 times more potent than morphine – accounted for the majority of those deaths, about 64,000.

The drug epidemic has grown in tandem with the Covid-19 pandemic, which has killed about 509,000 people during the same period.

Dr Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse: “In a crisis as severe as this, people who have already taken drugs may take higher amounts and those who are recovering may relapse. It’s a phenomenon we’ve seen and probably predicted,” he told CNN in an earlier report

The increased use of synthetic drugs had attracted the attention of experts before Covid-19 hit, but the pandemic may have exacerbated the problem, Volkow said.

With restrictions on international travel, synthetics that are easier to produce and more concentrated are also smuggled more efficiently, she added.

Biden administration invests $4 billion from the Covid-19 relief package towards combating overdose deaths, including by expanding mental health and substance use disorder services.

CNN’s Kiely Westhoff and Amanda Watts contributed to this report.



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