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Before Jackson Danzig leaves the house each morning, he makes sure his backpack is filled with the usual high school necessities: books, homework, lunch –- and the Narcan sitting on his bedside table.After three high schoolers overdosed in Tennessee earlier this year, leaving two dead, the survivor was charged with murdering her classmates.
Bucking statewide trends, Arlington County may be seeing opioid overdoses trend down this year. So far this year, Arlington registered 44 overdoses with Narcan -- a brand name for the opioid-reversal drug naloxone -- deployed in 35 instances. Of the overdoses, eight involved juveniles, all of whom received Narcan. That marks a 31% decrease this
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From 2019 until 2022, there were no reported juvenile overdoses on Arlington Public Schools grounds. In the first six weeks of 2023, there have been three, including one that was fatal.
Four other students were evaluated on premises, after the boy was found unresponsive in the school bathroom.