We cannot lie, we cannot exaggerate to teens.' 'The most important tenet of drug education is to be honest,' says professor Bonnie Halpern-Felsher. Teaching safety measures for when students do choose to use Some experts say drug education that focuses on harm reduction techniques – designed to keep people safe when they do choose to use – could help save lives. And the problem has followed teens onto college campuses. Many of those deaths involved fentanyl-laced counterfeit prescription pills that didn't come from a pharmacy. The synthetic opioid was involved in the vast majority of teen overdose deaths in 2021, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And now, overdose deaths among teenagers have skyrocketed - largely due to fentanyl. But research shows this approach alone doesn't work. The message was repeated in public service announcements and in classroom presentations.
Schools And The Fentanyl Crisis As more teens overdose on fentanyl, schools face a drug crisis unlike any otherįor decades, students like Myers have been told to just say no to drugs.
