Cooper Davis, high schooler at Mill Valley, was 16 years old when he and his friends decided to split a Percocet pill they bought on social media. They didn’t know it contained a deadly amount of fentanyl, a synthetic opioid.
His friends had symptoms of the poisoning and survived while Cooper didn’t.
A year later, Cooper’s parents, Randy Davis and his wife, Libby Davis, created Keepin’ Clean for Coop, a non-profit organization for awareness about fentanyl and drug use.
“We decided that we wanted to work on making other people aware of [fentanyl] and getting this information out so that we could help prevent someone else from having to go through what we did with our family,” Randy said.
Deaths from opioids — a class of drugs to relieve pain — including overdoses from addiction or accidental poisoning have decreased by 23% since 2023, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Improving treatments and grant funding have contributed to this decrease, according...
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