This story is Part 3 of WTOP’s four-part series, “ Fighting Fentanyl ,” which explores how the drug is impacting students, families and schools in the D.C. area. How schools, community groups are helping promising overdose trends in DC area

Once a month at Edison High School, dozens of students attend a meeting for the Fairfax County, Virginia, school’s “Our Minds Matter Club.”

The group strives to create a space in which students can speak about whatever’s on their minds, whether it be their mental health or a challenge they’re experiencing. In some cases, students just listen and appreciate the opportunity to be included.

Part of that approach aims to reduce the stigma attached to talking about mental health problems or struggles with addiction.

As deadly overdoses decline acro

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