High schoolers’ overdose deaths leave a Central Texas town grappling with the opioid crisis

Jeff Barnett, chief of police in Kyle, says fentanyl-laced pills are easily accessible online. “You could probably find a fentanyl-laced pill within five minutes on social media and probably arrange a meeting within the hour” with a dealer, Barnett says.

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Since July, four students in the Hays Consolidated Independent School District in Central Texas have died from fentanyl overdoses.

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First: At least one of the four students who died from a fentanyl overdose was a student at Lehman High School in Kyle. Last: Student artwork on display at Lehman High School in Kyle, in front of its health care department.

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