{"id":3770,"date":"2023-01-09T05:02:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T11:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3770"},"modified":"2023-03-21T02:29:30","modified_gmt":"2023-03-21T07:29:30","slug":"nj-art-teacher-overdoses-on-fentanyl-in-front-of-middle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/?p=3770","title":{"rendered":"<strong>NJ art teacher overdoses on fentanyl in front of middle school students<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An art teacher at a suburban New Jersey middle school has been arrested after he overdosed in front of students, police said.<br \/>\nFrank Thompson, a 57-year-old teacher at Roosevelt Intermediate School in Westfield, was found unconscious and unresponsive in a second-floor classroom just after 9 a.m. on Nov. 29, 2022,\u00a0according to the Westfield Police Department.<br \/>\nPolice said that Thompson was first observed in distress by students and was actively being treated by a school nurse when officers arrived.<br \/>\nA responding police officer immediately recognized signs that indicated the teacher was overdosing on drugs and injected him with naloxone hydrochloride, or Narcan, that he carries on his person, cops said.<br \/>\nThompson quickly showed signs of improvement, according to police.<br \/>\nDuring a subsequent investigation, police discovered fentanyl and paraphernalia in the classroom closet.<br \/>\nA New Jersey art teacher was arrested on Thursday after overdosing in front of his class in November.Getty Images<br \/>\nIn a letter to parents, the school district said the classroom was sealed off and then sanitized,\u00a0Fox 5\u2002reported.<br \/>\nWhile the incident occurred in November, Thompson was charged on Thursday with possession of a controlled dangerous substance, possession of drug paraphernalia, endangering the welfare of children and a disorderly person offense, police said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/01\/08\/nj-art-teacher-frank-thompson-overdoses-on-fentanyl-in-front-of-middle-school-students\/\">Nypost<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An art teacher at a suburban New Jersey middle school has been arrested after he overdosed in front of students, police said. Frank Thompson, a 57-year-old teacher at Roosevelt Intermediate School in Westfield, was found unconscious and unresponsive in a second-floor classroom just after 9 a.m. on Nov. 29, 2022,\u00a0according to the Westfield Police Department. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":3771,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[1604,2861,1728,1605,4016,4018,1529,2700,3336,4017],"class_list":["post-3770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-art","tag-drugs","tag-fentanyl","tag-front","tag-middle-school","tag-new-jersey","tag-teacher","tag-teachers","tag-thompson","tag-westfield-roosevelt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3770"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8180,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3770\/revisions\/8180"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ustower.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}