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A weekend fraternity party turns dangerous. Four Johns Hopkins University students end up in the hospital. Baltimore City Police say the undergrads all overdosed on opioids.
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Did it make news mainly because a drug less common than alcohol was used in this case?
Probably because opioids are illegal and alcohol is not (there was no mention students were underage). Also, there is an opiod epidemic in this country that is affecting the middle and upper classes.
I’m sure it made news because the kids needed Narcan to reverse the effects of overdosing. They likely would have died without it.
Yep, it’s a bigger deal when it happens in our neighborhood and you no longer see a separation. S1 had a friend die during his sophomore year, nice kid and a track athlete.
I think if 4 kids were in the hospital due to alcohoL abuse it would have made the news too.
My heart breaks for the families. It could happen to any of us.
They weren’t intentionally doing opioids but had cocaine cut with fentanyl or heroin.
That is awful… but really glad to read that they survived.
How is this relevant?
It’s hard to say if they would have died without Narcan, absent additional information. With the increasing abuse of opiates, Narcan is widely available and likely used whenever there is question of altered mental status with somnolence.
There really is no innocent or accidental opiate overdose. Hopkins should expel all involved but will expel none and blame many but the people using the drugs.
@sylvan8798 It is relavant because many kids think “this can’t happen to me because I am not a heroin addict.” In reality, any illicit or illegally obtained drug can pose this risk as one never really knows exactly what one is taking. I think that was the point here; this can happen to anyone’s kid. All it takes is one “party” with the wrong substance. No one knows for sure what their kid is doing while away at school, we just hope they make the right decisions in the way that we taught them.
Why?
fwiw: the frat in question is not recognized by Hopkins, and is not a member of its IFC.
under what student rule?
I don’t know whether JHU should expel or not. Do they expel if a student is arrested for a DUI? Shoplifting?
Maybe there are grounds if JHU has something in their code of conduct that addresses bringing embassment to the university?? No idea.
One takeaway is that these issues happen everywhere. Every year we see kids and parents saying that they’re looking for schools where kids aren’t partiers…and it’s obvious that they believe that the top schools are somehow only populated with kids who are either in class, studying, engaging in intellectual conversations with their peeers, or asleep in their beds (alone) by midnight.
As long as kids, parents, and college administration believe:
“Kids will be kids”
"Drinking when 18 is all just part of “growing up”
“Doing drugs is all part of the fun college experience”
“Its rite of passage”
“Athletes are elite. They must do excessive things because they are so special”
More kids will continue to die every year.
Hope the dead kid(s) parents continue to buy into all of the above even after the tragedy.
Seriously insane…
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Thankfully, none of the 4 died.
“Why, under what student rule should they be expelled?”
This one:
Students are expected to obey the law. Individuals who violate the law, in addition to being subject to criminal penalties, may be subject to university disciplinary measures. The university will not excuse acts of misconduct committed by students whose judgment is impaired due to alcohol or drug abuse.
^^Is that part of the Student Handbook, MaryGJ? If not they’ll have to add it for future classes.
JHU’s student conduct code is at https://studentaffairs.jhu.edu/policies/student-code/ .
Seems like some of the alleged actions could fall under prohibited items 2, 5, 9, 10. A large range of penalties from notification to expulsion exist, though there is no particular minimum or maximum for any given type of violation.