'Do-gooding' NY freshman, 19, dies from fentanyl overdose after taking one fake Percocet READ MORE: 300 Americans dying per DAY from drug overdoses By Cassidy Morrison Senior Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 11:53 EDT, 11 June 2024 | Updated: 08:25 EDT, 12 June 2024 e-mail 58 shares 46 View comments A single fraudulent pill could contain a lethal dose of the drug fentanyl — the opioid that has led to over 70,000 fatal overdoses. David and Kate Gibbons received the worst news imaginable when police arrived at their door to say their 19 year-old daughter had died of an overdose after taking just one pill that she believed to be the potent painkiller Percocet .
Tragically, the pill, purchased by a friend over social media, was in fact pure fentanyl. Just two milligrams of the deadly drug – equal to about 15 grains of table salt – is a lethal dose. The New York family said their daughter was not one for drug use and rarely, if ever, got in trouble with her parents or the law.
Swallowing the pill was a mistake, Kate and David said, that cost her her life. Paige Gibbons was trusting of the person who supplied her and her friends with the fake Percocet, which was actually all fentanyl Her parents, shown left and third from left, said their daughter was not one for drug use or getting in trouble. Rather, it was a single mistake that ruined their lives Paige, a student at Hobart and William Smith Colleges in Geneva, New York, had dreams of being a doctor.
She had eve.
