This story is Part 2 of WTOP’s four-part series, “ Fighting Fentanyl ” which explores how the drug is impacting students, families and schools in the D.C. area.

When Sean and Afrodita Foster prepare to speak to Loudoun County Public Schools students about the dangers of fentanyl, the kids anticipate “another boring assembly.” Va. couple who lost their son is raising awareness to make sure nobody has to feel their pain

But instead, students share.

“This is exactly what we needed to hear. We had no idea that these pills were as dangerous as they were,” Sean Foster said.

There’s one student, though, who didn’t get that message in time.

Cayden Foster, Sean and Afrodita’s only child, died of a fentanyl overdose in early 2023 at 18 years old. Afrodita found him dead in his bed one mornin

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