A California man is sending a warning to St. Louis high school students after his son died from unintentionally taking fentanyl.
17-year-old Zach Didier was a straight-A student and a star athlete. He was at the mall with friends when he bought a pill from someone he'd met on Snapchat who claimed they were selling Percocet. But the pill turned out to contain deadly amounts of fentanyl. His parents found him unresponsive in his room two days after Christmas in 2020.
Last week, Zach's father Chris Didier spoke in St. Louis to a group of students at Priory.
"If anyone is getting a prescription and it's not from a pharmacy with their name on the bottle, it's expected to be fake — and there's a high potential to have fentanyl in it," Didier told the students.
He added that fake pills containing fentanyl are also being sold online, and that parents should warn their kids that no real prescription drugs are being sold online.
According to the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), six out of ten fake fentanyl pills contain a lethal dose of the substance. Pill presses are often used to make fake, fentanyl-filled Xanax, Percocet, Oxycodone, Amphetamine, and more.
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