When mental health becomes low, it may be easier for teens to abuse drugs. Drugs like Fentanyl are destructive, Fentanyl is an Opioid. When people are seeking a  stress reliever, drugs become accessible for people to use.  When people do not want to talk about their stress, it can be easier to find a substance to use. One of the Assistant Principals, here at Tahoma says that they tell kids to learn about drug abuse, if they do drugs  they would get addicted on drugs and start doing more drugs. The analogy they used  was that if you  give a mouse a cookie, the mouse would want more, the same with drugs, the more you do it becomes easier to get addicted to drugs. When people get addicted to drugs, it is important to have a person intervene and start a intervention. The problem with drugs  is that it hijacks your brain and when drugs hijack your brain, you get easily addicted to it .The neurotransmitter for dopamine is intact, which makes it hard for people to quit. During the Pandemic, about nine million people abused the synthetic opioid;  in 2020 alone, overdoses from synthetic Opioids  jumped 56% and people need to seek medical help for a drug overdose and substance abuse. A way to help those in need is using Narcan, which can be used for accidental overdoses. 130 American die every day from Opioid overdoses, the drug Fentanyl is extremely powerful, over 50 times stronger than Heroin and Opioids alone.  Doctors prescribe legal opioids that treat  severe pain and drugs have powerful affect on your body and your brain alone.

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