Shawnee family loses 16-year-old as DEA warns about pills laced with fentanyl – FOX4KC

SHAWNEE, Kan. — An alarming increase in overdoses from counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl prompted the Drug Enforcement Administration to issue its first public safety announcement in six years. It says one pill can kill and never take any drugs that do not come from a reputable pharmacy. A Shawnee family is one of almost 100,000 families suffering this year from what the DEA calls an epidemic. Sixteen-year-old Cooper Davis was an adventurous kid who wanted to go the fastest, jump the highest and had an attraction to dangerous sports. Someone who never knew a stranger, lit up every room he walked into, did silly things just to be funny and was the life of the party. He was also a recreational drug user. “We tried to convince him that he would not always know what he was being given, that there was just too many unknowns out there and what he was doing was dangerous.” said Cooper’s mom Libby Davis. “But Cooper always had the mentality of it will never happen to me. He always thought he was invincible in all the risk-taking things he would do.” August 29, Libby Davis got a phone call she feared. Her son…
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