[jonnyss]

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?

percocet is not an illegal drug. as you note, the problem occurred from adulteration/contamination of a legal drug (obtained recreationally). of course schools warn of local public health problems - like salmonella outbreaks in local restaurants.

yes, stanford was warned. you are splitting hairs to say stanford was only warned as one school among many. 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 recreational 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.

i think of how any of number of people could easily have prevented a death. you assert stanford wasn't legally required to save him. i guess i think like a doctor and you think like a lawyer.

[jonnyss]

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?

percocet is not an illegal drug. as you note, the problem occurred from adulteration/contamination of a legal drug (obtained recreationally). of course schools warn of local public health problems - like salmonella outbreaks in local restaurants.

yes, stanford was warned. you are splitting hairs to say stanford was only warned as one school among many. 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 recreational 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.

i think of how any of number of people could easily have prevented a death. you assert stanford wasn't legally required to save him. i guess i think like a doctor and you think like a lawyer.