Connecticut Teen Dies at School From Fentanyl Overdose

One hundred bags of the narcotic fentanyl were found in the bedroom of a teen who died from an overdose.

Investigators and the Hartford Police Department in Connecticut are trying to find the person who sold a 13-year-old over 100 bags of the highly addictive narcotic fentanyl after the drug was found in his bedroom earlier this month. Police say the unidentified boy overdosed at the Sports and Medical Science Academy, which is where his body was found. Some of the bags found in his room match 60 bags that were found at the Sports and Medical Science Academy, ABC News reports.

Fentanyl, a Schedule II prescription drug, is typically used by post-surgery patients for severe pain relief. According to the National Institute on Drug Abuse, fentanyl is 50 to 100 times stronger than morphine. In 2020 alone, 56,516 overdose deaths were reported that year, according to drugabuse.gov.

The Hartford Police Department says the bags had the same identifying stamp in a statement. “This fentanyl was packaged in the same manner as the bags located at the school, had the same identifying stamp, and tested at an even higher purity level (60% purity),” the police said. Investigators say two other students fell ill from the drug, but both have since recovered.

Right now, there’s no evidence that anyone else other than the teen brought the drugs to school. However, there is an “individual who has a history at the residence” and a narcotics history that is now a person of interest, but they’ve not been labeled a suspect, the news outlet reports. The child’s mother is also cooperating with the investigation.

“At this time, we have no evidence to support her having any prior knowledge of her son’s possession of the fentanyl,” said police in a statement, ABC News reports.