Who was Katherine Schlegel?
Katherine Schlegel was a college student, a 2016 graduate of NCHS and a lifelong resident of New Canaan, Connecticut. Slaughter traveled to New York City the weekend of the festival with another soldier, Tanner Howell, who arranged to buy 57 molly tablets to use with Schlegel and her friend at the gig. 3,4-Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, also known by its scientific name MDMA, or more popularly, ecstasy or molly, is an illegal drug with stimulant and hallucinogenic effects. A typical recreational dose of ecstasy ranges from 50 to 150 mg, and users will typically consume 1–2 tablets over the course of an evening. Taking up to 10 pills at a time can lead to toxic effects, such as overdose, according to The Recovery Village.
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In theory, everyone expected to see a major drop in opioids during the pandemic. Forced lockdowns, transportation cuts and limited movement should have meant that there is zero infrastructure available for drugs to be peddled to the end-user. Only the reality turned out to be frighteningly different.
Drug overdose of all kinds killed nearly 84,000 people in the US from August 2019 to July 2020. That is a staggering 23% more than in the previous 12-month period. That also happens to be the highest number of overdose deaths ever recorded in a single year. Opioids accounted for more than 61,000, or 73% of those deaths.
Doctors are seeing an increase in drug overdose deaths during the pandemic
Doctors are seeing an increase in drug overdose deaths during the pandemic By Kimberly Curth | January 28, 2021 at 4:38 PM CST - Updated January 28 at 5:51 PM
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - Shannon Prince lost her only child to an accidental overdose in 2019. Parker was only 25 and addicted to opioids.
“You don’t expect to lose your children before you go,” Prince said. ”He was a social genius. He had so many friends. He was so sweet and he and I were really, really close and I miss him so much.”
She lost him to the disease of addiction.