[FarmTeam]

Not seeing how those examples are analogous. Meningitis in dorm environments is a known problem. No evidence has been presented that Stanford knew of any widespread problem of students using adulterated percocet, or that the DA had told them directly there was a problem at Stanford.

Does Stanford have to tell students not to drive over the speed limit? Not to shoot people? How does safe consumption of illegal drugs fit anywhere into a university's remit?

here is the warning the santa clara county health department sent to all schools. it asks the schools to have narcan available and to educate responsible parties in the school about the prevalence of pills adulterated with fentanyl, and about signs of opiate overdose (which eitan weiner had). this warning speaks to an urgent, specific public health problem - not to the general problem of illicit drug use.

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3 months after this health advisory, after weiner suffered his first obvious opiate overdose, would you say stanford/vaden had no moral responsibility to hold an urgent meeting with the fraternity to discuss fentanyl prevalence and dangers? maybe the law doesn't require it, but such an obvious, sensible intervention would likely have saved a life.

if so, i guess i think like a doctor and you think like a lawyer.

Hell no. Give me a break. "Hey, legal adults, don't overdose on illegal drugs." SMH. 

And it's shameful that the parents are pointing fingers in every direction but at their kid and at themselves (like they didn't know...please. I'll say it like a lawyer: if they didn't know, they should have known). Any sympathy that I had for them is long gone with this ridiculous claim.

[FarmTeam]

Not seeing how those examples are analogous. Meningitis in dorm environments is a known problem. No evidence has been presented that Stanford knew of any widespread problem of students using adulterated percocet, or that the DA had told them directly there was a problem at Stanford.

Does Stanford have to tell students not to drive over the speed limit? Not to shoot people? How does safe consumption of illegal drugs fit anywhere into a university's remit?

here is the warning the santa clara county health department sent to all schools. it asks the schools to have narcan available and to educate responsible parties in the school about the prevalence of pills adulterated with fentanyl, and about signs of opiate overdose (which eitan weiner had). this warning speaks to an urgent, specific public health problem - not to the general problem of illicit drug use.

link

3 months after this health advisory, after weiner suffered his first obvious opiate overdose, would you say stanford/vaden had no moral responsibility to hold an urgent meeting with the fraternity to discuss fentanyl prevalence and dangers? maybe the law doesn't require it, but such an obvious, sensible intervention would likely have saved a life.

if so, i guess i think like a doctor and you think like a lawyer.

Hell no. Give me a break. "Hey, legal adults, don't overdose on illegal drugs." SMH. 

And it's shameful that the parents are pointing fingers in every direction but at their kid and at themselves (like they didn't know...please. I'll say it like a lawyer: if they didn't know, they should have known). Any sympathy that I had for them is long gone with this ridiculous claim.