Concord Police are investigating the death of a 14-year-old Concord High School student. The teen died at his/her home on Saturday, police said.
Police said they are not yet certain of the cause of death, although there are indications that the death may have been an accidental overdose after the ingestion of a pill, similar to the one pictured above.
Everyone in the community is to be reminded they should only ingest pills or medications prescribed by their doctor. There are incidents happening in many communities where pills are counterfeited and laced with other toxic substances, such as Fentanyl, which could be lethal, even in small doses, according to police.
Oxycodone
Imprint 30 M
Strength 30 mg
Color Blue
Size 6.00 mm
Shape Round
Availability Prescription only
Drug Class
Narcotic analgesics
Pregnancy Category
N – Not classified
CSA Schedule 2 – High potential for abuse
Labeler / Supplier Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals
If they OD’d on this, they had to have taken more than one, or else mixed it with something else, like Fentanyl. Tragic and preventable.
….or it was a fake replica pill that in actuality was Fentanyl that was created and sold on the black market.
When you acquire pills from anywhere other than a pharmacy there is no way of knowing what they actually are or what is in them.
https://www.dea.gov/highlight-topics/counterfeit-pills?fbclid=IwAR2fzMQgJKT0ILH6Kx25q__mspyEjrlJn09EkSyvHakqtriZk5nkk5w8ooo
One 30 mg. oxycodone would not do it unless it was taken with something else and broke the camel’s back or was counterfeit and contained fentanyl instead of oxycodone.
Three 30s can depress respiration, especially for a small Freshman girl.
It’s a shame and I feel for her family. Just starting one of the funnest stages of life too.
Almost all the fentanyl in the US is Chinese and is muled from Mexico. A lot is carried by illegal aliens who seem to have no problems carrying a backpack containing an unknown substance over the border for help getting to the US. Great citizens they will become.
This poor angel girl was my daughters friend. The whole community is devastated by this . Please talk to kids about pills and all this bad stuff being laced . Never to take from anyone . RIP ❤️
most of the oxys norcos xanax etc available on the street are mexican counterfeits laced with fentanyl and where do the mexiicans get most of the fentanyl and meth components ? China
A parent’s worse nightmare. The pain left in their family will be in their hearts forever.
Condolences to the family. Gives me chills. I saw a group of kids near the CHS crosswalk this AM crying and being comforted by other students. It stuck out this AM and I thought to myself “well that’s odd, why are they crying?” – Then thought “well that’s nice there are friends there to comfort them” and I went on my way to work. I don’t know but it was probably connected to this incident. Breaks my heart. I have a 6th Grader and we talked a lot about not accepting pills, drugs, medications, anything to ingest in any form from any person. That Middle School was a big, new world. Looks like we need to continue to talk about this. Life is a scary place and I’m learning as I go, too. We didn’t have all these scary drugs and pills when I was growing up. The drugs are so different now then they were then. Communicate and talk with your children, not once, but often. Make your home a place where they can come to you, talk to you and feel supported by you. Not saying this family didn’t provide that, because this could happen to literally anyone. One bad choice, as we all know, can lead to tragic consequences. I am thinking of this family and their tragedy and I’m sending sincerest condolences for the loss of their child.
Amen
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Recreational use!
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RIP.
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Horrible and heartbreaking. Very sorry it happened! But maybe, just maybe, 500 other kids now are less likely to want to take any drug offered to them by friends or pushers!
When I was in high school five classmates died from either taking drugs or getting drunk and having accidents. They cured me of it right then and there. Never had a problem
hopefully something good can come from this. maybe if parents will talk with their kids about the frailty of life. maybe some will listen, and fewer will hear and learn.
This is horrible news and parents need to talk to their kids about the dangers of taking pills or other drugs/alcoholic beverages (such as lean). Prayers to the family of this young girl. Too many teens always feel it can’t happen to them, they need to wake up and focus on just being kids.
Thanks Jay I think we should not be doing “smoke cbd or weed” also. Come on you guys are young you don’t need this garbage. It is a shame that a ninth grade girl thinks she needs drugs. Very Sorry.
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The kids know the dangers, if they want to try it then it’s all on them, can’t blame anyone else.
Sad indeed but it was her choice and her mistake..
I’m sure someone it’s going to go after the person they gave it to her.
You really think this young girl thought there was a chance she could die from the pills she took? More than likely she never read the news. Had no clue thousand were dying from pills yearly in our country.
I don’t disagree with anything you said. When you talk to some fourteen year olds it goes in one ear and out the other. She had no clue she could die.
I have been telling all Republicans if they want any of my money they better find a judge to close the border.
@Ricardoh – Republicans support illegal immigration as well.
Repubs – for cheap labor.
Dems – for future democrat voters.
A labor force subsidized by the American taxpayer. Republicans love that.
She was a beautiful young girl who loved to dance and always smiled. May her family find peace and healing.
They are home pressed fake 30mg oxycodone pills that actually contain mostly if not all fentanyl. Very powerful. Very cheap.
WTH is this world coming to? And everyone out here worried about a damn flu bug, C’mon man jeez
Most of the pills on the street are these counterfeits- its like russian roulette most times they get you high but theres no regulation on dosage so ,,,
I read a post from the FDA or DEA that tested these and said the dose varied from .9mg to 6.9mg.
I wonder if that’s a variance typical of one batch or if it was counted across them all, because even experienced street users could accidentally get a triple cherry slot pull and take 5x 6.9mg blues expecting 5x .9-2.0mg ones. If eating or railing, you’d be turning bluer than the pills, likely puking and seizing, chest and thorax muscles paralyzed, long before you could do anything save for hope to hell a nearby angel is packing narcan. A shooter most likely would feel the difference and back off, if they value their life, but anything is possible.
I feel so bad for the poor kids these days that have to avoid these, especially those who get a vic scrip for a legit reason and turn to the street out of dependence and lack of treatment/awareness. Also, all the stupid and ridiculous instances of the inclusion of ‘perc(s)’ as the go to rhyme.
When I was 15 a classmate’s father died of cancer and he began fervently selling 5 mg oc ir’s for $1. I thought that was heaven, at the time, and it was, until it was not, and it’s been on and off hell ever since.
St. price for these is:
1x = $10-$30 usually around 20 or 30 with the supplier passing them off as diverted 30mg roxicodone ‘blue 30s’ or, incorrectly, ‘percs’
100x = $6 each
1000x = $1-2 each
Dark web fent powder is even cheaper, pill presses are expensive but easy to find.
Let me tell you these things are no 30mg ocs, they can be much, much more powerful, some contain crystal M, and I guarantee there have been some made strong enough to kill a 14 yr old female with 1 single pill.
God save them.
All info included here is provided to illuminate the circumstances surrounding fentanyl and our youth to responsible readers of this forum. Please be careful, and don’t judge those with a disease. Stigma, illegality, and lack of connectedness are the main reasons so many people are losing their lives and reasons to live in America from drugs.
We don’t know the facts. Be careful and be sensitive.
My an important public service announcement:
Fentanyl is a HIGHLY potent ingredient of counterfeit meds.
Every parent must be made aware of fentanyl.
It is the current scourge of our society. I comes in by air, across the border and is made locally.
“Synthetic Opioids Including Fentanyl Helped Drive Record-High Overdose Deaths in 2020
Recently released data by the CDC show that drug overdose deaths reached a record high of 93,331 in 2020. While these estimates are not final, this is more than 20,000 deaths above the previous high in 2019 and the largest single-year percentage increase on record since 1999. Since 2015 the percentage of all U.S. deaths attributed to overdoses has grown from 1.9 percent to 2.8 percent, even as COVID-19 increased total deaths by more than 300,000 in 2020.”
MORE PEOPLE DIED OF OPIOID OVERDOSE INCLUDING FAKE PRESCRIPTION MEDS IN SF than from COVID. EPIDEMIC of drug use.
Anon, do you know the family? You seem to have it all figured out including how to parent.
I am so sorry prayers and lots hugs to you and your family ❤❤
Our deepest condolences to the family. I was so shock when I received the email. I know this time of situationist very difficult to the family, kindly please bow our head and give our prayers to the family. Be strong and I pray the soul of this young girl. 🙏🙏🙏
My daughter just started her freshmen year at CVCHS and I have warned her already and read this article to her today. This is absolutely heartwrenching. I cannot even imagine what her family is going through. My condolences to her family. Things are so much different now. Buying what you think is a painkiller off the streets can literally be a death sentence. More than likely it was a counterfeit pill containing a lethal dose of fentanyl. The Mexican drug cartels get Fentanyl directly from China and use it to cut opioids and whatever else street drugs. They have the counterfeit plates used to press the pills and are making millions. With our southern border being blown wide open these tragedies will only continue. And Bdpirate, you’re an ***hole!
This is crazy, and I think it is happening way more often than we know of but people are staying quiet about the cause of death. I’ve seen 3 young men die suddenly on my fb feed in the last year or so, and I think tainted drugs are more prevalent than we understand. To the public, these are just presented as fentanyl overdoses, so we assume the victims are hardcore drug users on the streets, but in many cases they aren’t. You could literally try something and die with fentanyl, the stakes are way too high.
Drugs have been available for kids for many years. I was a high schooler in the ’70’s and we all knew the consequences. Many of us still experimented for whatever reason-to be cool- to be accepted-depressed whatever the reason.
You cannot stop this if the person wants to take something at home or at a party.
I am sorry for this loss of life but we do not know the exact circumstances or the reason she ingested this drug.
May she rest in peace.
Very sad and tragic at such a young age. Prayers.
How tragic…..RIP and condolences to the family.
Please…to ALL people out there young and old….beware! Best thing you can do is not get involved in drugs of any sort. You never know what you are smoking/ingesting/injecting so just keep away and your life will be a lot happier.
Don’t. Do. Pills.
This is heartbreaking even for the ones we don’t know this girl and her family but just putting my self one minute on their shoes kills me it’s so sad when you know this sunshine was on her 14th the age where you have much fun much friend but sometimes you meet the wrong friends and I think don’t take me wrong . On this situation it’s not a matter of race or color this is everywhere god please stop this why this lil girl .. and PARENTS SOMETIMES WE WORK TO MUCH THE WE GET HOME SO TIRED BECAUSE YOU HAVE TO WORK HARD TO COVERED EXPENSES OR GIVE YOUR CHILDRENS WHAT THEY WANT .. I think it’s better to work less and give much attention to our kids like I said don’t take me wrong I have 3 teens but I’m always checking on my kids 24/7 even when I’m working I have 2 girls and 1 boy my husband will not let my 20 years old girl get home after 10 pm sometimes he gets me so mad but now I think he is doing the correct thing and the other 2 they don’t go out if it’s not with us
Overdose can happen to anyone, at anytime. One life lost is one life too many.
Do not take any medication that has not been prescribed by a physician for you.
More information about drugs and how you can help someone who is using or may be at risk of overdosing here:
https://www.drugfreeconcord.com/drugs-a-z
https://drugfree.org/prevention-and-taking-action-early/
First of all, let’s not forget that a young girl is dead. Please be respectful. Secondly, we can act like this is an isolated incident or uncommon, but kids are doing drugs. My daughter told me that some kid at her middle school was selling pills. I called the administrator and since they couldn’t prove it, nothing was done. He continues to sell drugs and has yet to be caught. My son goes to CVCHS and tells me that he has to drive his girlfriend home at lunch to use the bathroom because the bathrooms at school are full of kids using drugs and threatening anyone who comes in who does not want to partake and she is terrified. Teachers, administrators, parents …. pay attention, speak up – don’t let this poor girl’s death be in vain. Students won’t do it because they are afraid of retaliation. Be the grown ups – protect your kids.