Posted on 09/16/2022 3:17:35 PM PDT by upchuck
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. (Gray News) - Authorities in California say a school employee has been hospitalized after coming into contact with fentanyl pills on campus.
According to the Bakersfield Police Department, a Chipman Junior High School student allegedly brought 150 fentanyl pills disguised as Percocet to school on Sept. 9.
Authorities said a yard supervisor overdosed after inadvertently making contact with the pills while finding them on the student.
A police officer with the Kern High School District administered Narcan to the staff member, who was later transported to a hospital.
The BPD said the school supervisor was checking the student after the 13-year-old was involved in an unrelated altercation with another student that day.
Police said the student was also in possession of about $300.
According to Bakersfield police, it wasn’t immediately known if any of the pills were sold or given to other students, but the 13-year-old was arrested for possession of a controlled substance for sales purposes and other associated duties.
The school employee is expected to survive the incident, and BPD said it is working with the Bakersfield City School District to ensure campus safety.
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Apparently and obviously this is a dangerous drug so I don’t understand HOW it can be handled and packaged for distribution without leaving hundreds of dead bodies in the the process.
Old ones had Gel. New ones have it a matrix plastic. Junkies hate patches now.
Perhaps. They are now being marked as percocet and oxycodone.
Maybe the kid had 152 pills and the supervisor thought ‘you know, the afternoon might not be so bad if I took 2 of these Percocet’.
It’s a reference to his screen name Prince of Space.
Touching them with the tongue, maybe.
School employee bought some pills and ingested them. On purpose.
“Overcame by” not “overdoses”. Not deliberate.
But we have people on FR who have assured us that is just a myth.
Who to believe?
I call BS.
Double gloving was pretty common when fentanyl was found in the prison I worked at.
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Maybe this is like what’s at my kids school? They call them Duty’s here. Just a part time job to hang out and watch the kids during recess. Back in my day, the teachers rotated doing this job. But I suppose tue unions got rid of that.
Even water, when misused, can kill people.
Drugs and not the boogie man any more than guns are.
It's people that are the boogie man.
Of note (from that 2nd link) is that the DEA has pulled their warning page about casual / skin contact with fentanyl.
I can think of some scenarios, one possible one is he was checking the kids for weapons after he got into an altercation with another student, and he felt a container in his pocket. He opens the container and pours the contents into his palm to look at it.
All it takes is a brain cramp to be in a situation where under normal circumstances you would say “OK I might peek in there but I’m not gonna pour it out to my palm” But you might be distracted, worked up after breaking up a fight between two adolescents, and simply not thinking correctly.
It’s entirely possible that the kid knows very well that you shouldn’t touch the stuff… And does take precautions. I would think anybody traveling in those circles with that kind of stuff understands that.
I know, somebody would have to be pretty dim witted anyway to be doing that stuff, so it’s also just as possible they treat the stuff when carrying it with a dangerous degree of incaution.
But it doesn’t feel that way. You would think that would weed out the stupid one’s pretty quick.
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