A 13-year-old adolescent from Connecticut is in critical condition for having suffered an overdose of fentanyl in a school, while two others were discharged.
In an incident that occurred on Thursday, authorities reported that the affected student, who is in the seventh grade, collapsed in the gym of the Academy of Medical and Sports Sciences (SMSA), in Hartford, capital of the state, in the morning.
Seeing the minor collapsed on the ground, an SMSA nurse performed cardiopulmonary resuscitation until EMS arrived and he was transferred to Connecticut Children’s Medical Center.
During the same period of time, school personnel identified two potential victims in a classroom located in another area of the same school, who were admitted to the hospital for observation after complaining of dizziness. They were subsequently discharged.
The authorities indicated that it is presumed that the three adolescents they were together at the time of making contact with the potent drug. No charges have been filed, as how the fentanyl was brought into the school is still under investigation.
“I don’t think it’s clear where it was ingested,” said Hartford Police Chief Jason Thody. . “It seems that (the three young people) were together when it was ingested and then they separated.”
For his part, the mayor of Hartford, Luke Bronin, stated that it is a student may have brought the drug to the educational institution.
“There were several additional bags of what we believe to be fentanyl found around the school, which we again believe was brought in by a student,” the mayor said.
Meanwhile, the school was evacuated, and drug-sniffing dogs were brought in to help search for more evidence at the school, the New York Post reported.
Students and staff at the SMSA were decontaminated before leaving due to the dangers of some types of fentanyl when it is in the air.
The school closed this Friday so that carry out a deep cleaning of the campus that could take several days, informed The director of the SMSA, Alison Giuliano, through a letter sent to parents, and they will receive information on when classes will resume, reported CNN.