This past weekend two students at Bellevue High School overdosed on what is being treated as lookalike medications laced with fentanyl.
Bellevue investigators were alerted with a shocking fentanyl warning in Bellevue. Police are warning and sending out reminders to parents after two teens overdosed last weekend just minutes apart. What is even worse is that these were two separate students who overdosed at approximately the same time.
Fortunately, the two teenagers survived. However, a mom who lost her teenage son to a fentanyl overdose join Bellevue investigators with an important and powerful warning. Investigators stated that the teens who attend Bellevue High School thought they were taking Percocet (pain killer), but the the pills were found to contain fentanyl or laced with fentanyl. The two boys admitted to the police that they bought Percocet off the streets before they overdosed at their homes- minutes apart.
Detectives said one is a 17-year-old boy who lives in Bellevue and his dad did CPR to bring him back. The other is an 18-year-old boy who lives in Yarrow Point and he had to be revived using Narcan, police said. Although both teens were fortunate enough to survive this horrible incident, police report that this underscores the fentanyl crisis.
“Now the message has changed,” said detective Jim Keene. “We can’t even really worry about addiction, we have to worry about life and death. One pill, sometimes the first pill you take, can be lethal.”
Olga Davidov-Beirer joined Bellevue investigators for the first time since her son died from a fentanyl overdose to try and help save the children of many other families. “On September 30th, 2019 I walked to his room just to cover him, it was early morning and I found his cold body,” Davidov-Beirer said. This is no sight that any mother should have to see. Davidov-Beirer found her son Lucas dead from a fentanyl overdose. Lucas was a football player at Skyline High School and his mother states that he thought he was buying Percocet pain killer off the streets.
Detectives state that cartels are making high quality pills which means the fake ones laced with fentanyl look exactly like real prescription pills. They say that it would be very cheap to make and dealers can manufacture their owns pills which contain fentanyl.
“These pills are very dangerous,” Keene said. “You just can’t assume anymore that any pill that you get off the street is legitimate. The only way it’s legitimate is if you got it from your pharmacist.”
Police and detectives are still investigating where the pills came from. Bellevue School District states that they take this matter very seriously as it could cost student lives. As of right now, officials are trying to make this problem more aware by pushing out more educational resources to students and families about the seriousness of this opioid crisis, including fentanyl.
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