The night last summer when 17-year-old Jayla McBroom died of a fentanyl overdose, she returned late to her Washington, D.C., home, made a dance video in her room, posted it on social media, and went to bed.
In the morning, her mother tried to wake her but found her unresponsive and cold.
“I looked at her face and saw a white foam in her nostrils,” her mother, Shekita McBroom, told the Washington Post.
Jayla, described as a vibrant and athletic girl, had taken pills laced with the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl. She’s now part of a distressing trend: a huge surge of overdose deaths since the Covid-19 pandemic began.
One night last summer, 17-year-old Jayla McBroom died of a fentanyl overdose. Late that evening, she returned to her Washington, D.C., home and made a dance video in her room. After she posted it on social media, she went to bed.
In the morning, her mother tried to wake her, but she didn’t respond and her skin felt cold.
“I looked at her face and saw a white foam in her nostrils,” her mother, Shekita McBroom, told the Washington Post.
Jayla, described as a vibrant and athletic girl, had taken pills laced with the deadly synthetic opioid fentanyl. She’s now part of a troubling trend: a huge surge of overdose deaths since the Covid-19 pandemic began.