A California mother is calling out the Biden administration over the nationwide drug crisis as 14 school districts in one county resort to carrying Narcan to prevent potential overdoses.Â
Former California State Assembly candidate Roxanne Hoge, R., joined “Fox & Friends First” to discuss how a series of issues, ranging from school lockdowns to the border crisis, have forced Orange County schools to take action.Â
“It’s a huge problem,” Hoge told co-host Todd Piro. “It starts off with them being told, by the way, the last three years, you’re useless, you’re a vector of disease, and school isn’t necessary, you’re a grandma killer.”
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“But even before that, the article, ‘The Coddling of the American Mind’ covered what was happening in colleges while it was happening in elementary and high schools, too, kids were being encouraged to really marinate in anxiety, in distress, in all the things that make us human, right? The stuff that makes you feel like you’re weird, or you don’t belong,” she continued. “That’s normal. Well, they were told to medicalize that and to numb that in some way… and that’s how we ended up here.”
According to the Orange County Health Care Agency, overdose deaths have climbed in recent years.Â
In 2019 there were 413 people who died from drug overdoses, another 648 in 2020, and 921 in 2021.Â
Statewide, synthetic opioid overdose deaths have also climbed since 2019.Â
There were more than 1,400 deaths in 2019, and that number climbed to more than 7,000 in 2022, according to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data.Â
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Hoge pinpointed kids’ mental health struggles and the crisis at the southern border as key issues forcing schools to carry the life-saving drug.Â
“Why are our kids… hurting and so empty inside that many of them do feel that they have to turn to self-medication?…
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