SOYF Fentanyl Education – Oklahoma
“Sold Out has some incredible materials, your curriculum and implementation package are a testimony to the industry and it was inspiring to review.”
- The vast majority of adolescent synthetic opioid deaths in Oklahoma involve black-market counterfeit prescription pills (such as fake Percocet, Oxycodone, or Xanax) that are laced with lethal doses of illicit fentanyl.
- Fentanyl remains highly lethal to youth because it is involved in 86% of all fatal opioid overdoses in the stateFentanyl is the fastest-growing cause of death for young people statewide, contributed to over 80% all teen drug-related deaths.
- Currently losing 22 students per week nationwide to accidental fentanyl poisoning (Lack of education)
- Only 50% U.S. teens ages 13–17 consider themselves knowledgeable about fentanyl.
Since 2014, Sold Out‘s Mission is to educate, encourage, and challenge students to live a life of alcohol and drug abstinence in order to significantly lessen, if not eradicate, the number of young individuals who are dying each year from alcohol and drugs, specifically fentanyl.
SOYF’s proactive, risk mitigating, proven, online technology program leveraging school districts computer, communications, and portal system. Consisting of four (4) main pillars each of which collectively provides risk mitigating, flexible, comprehensive resources in order to educate students, parents, and school districts about the dangers of drugs (Fentanyl) and alcohol use while simultaneously encouraging drug/ alcohol abstinence https://soldouttv.com/fentanyl-education/.
https://soldouttv.com/red-ribbon-week-2026/ ( Five (5) Day Lesson Plan)
Built-In Solutions for Demanding Staff Schedules
- Zero Counselor Time Constraints: The platform runs autonomously within existing school technology and support frameworks—like PE, health classes, or homerooms—ensuring that your core counseling hours remain completely untouched.
- No Added Workload or Planning: There are no lesson plans to research, no slideshows to construct, and no compliance paperwork to file; the entire flexible program and platform are pre-built and functions as a turn-key asset.
- Support for Understaffed Teams: The system operates as a digital extension of your department, providing an automated, year-round prevention framework that requires no staff oversight or continuous maintenance.
- Streamlined Daily Interactions: Instead of searching for materials during a crisis, counselors have instant access to professional, pre-formatted handouts that can be printed or digitally transmitted to parents and staff on demand.
365 Comprehensive Resource System
- Lightens Staff Workload: Eliminates the need for counselors or teachers to plan, research, or build substance prevention materials from scratch.
- Multi-Format Dissemination: All guides, fact sheets, and toolkits are readily printable for in-person hand-outs or formatted for instant digital sharing via student portals, text, and email newsletters.
- Everyday Crisis Readiness: Provides immediate, on-demand support materials for reactive counseling interventions, classroom guidance, or parent consultations.
- Continuous 24/7 Access: The digital platform remains live year-round, allowing stakeholders, facilitators, and families to access life-saving information exactly when they need it.
Multi-Stakeholder Toolkit
- Lightens Staff Workload: Eliminates the need for counselors or teachers to plan, research, or build substance prevention materials from scratch.
- Multi-Format Dissemination: All guides, fact sheets, and toolkits are readily printable for in-person hand-outs or formatted for instant digital sharing via student portals, text, and email newsletters.
- Everyday Crisis Readiness: Provides immediate, on-demand support materials for reactive counseling interventions, classroom guidance, or parent consultations.
- Continuous 24/7 Access: The digital platform remains live year-round, allowing stakeholders, facilitators, and families to access life-saving information exactly when they need it.
Tiered Delivery Settings
The curriculum adapts effortlessly into a Comprehensive School Counseling Program across multiple delivery methods:
- Core Curriculum Integration: Fits into health, physical education, or elective courses.
- System-Wide Focus: Powers specialized awareness campaigns like National Drug and Alcohol Facts Week or Red Ribbon Week campaigns.
- Targeted Interventions: Supports small-group counseling, athletic team character training, and student leadership boards.
- Home-School Connection: Drives parent-teacher associations (PTA) workshops and digital community awareness campaigns.
The Critical Need: Youth Substance Crisis
- Fentanyl Epidemic: Fentanyl poisoning stands as the number one killer of teenagers nationwide.
- Weekly Fatalities: The current domestic crisis claims the lives of 22 students every week.
- Perception Gap: Over 66% of high school seniors perceive no great risk in recreational narcotic use.
- Illicit Supply: Half of the 80 million fake pills seized by the DEA contain lethal doses.
- Unprescribed Medication: Nearly 18% of high schoolers report taking unprescribed prescription drugs.
- Accidental Poisonings: Lack of education causes 90% of teenage fentanyl poisonings to be accidental.
Student Empowerment & Device-Based Engagement
- Active Peer Participation: Empowers students to move from passive listeners to active advocates for campus safety.
- Private & Secure Learning: Delivers life-saving information directly onto student devices, allowing for private and discrete absorption of critical facts.
- Bridging the Data Gap: Connects clinical statistics directly to real-world student understanding to eliminate bystander behavior.
II. Data-Driven Success & Engagement Metrics
- 1,000% Engagement Increase: Direct student participation and feedback skyrocketed by 1,000% following the 2020 transition to the interactive online model.
- Measurable Local Reductions: Partner districts report a notable decrease in youth overdoses following implementation.
III. Verified District Leadership Validation
- Ease of Use: Praised by district headers for requiring zero extensive preparation from staff.
- Practical Integration: Serves as an effortless resource that complements existing school prevention frameworks without disruption.
- Meaningful Discussions: Facilitates deep, organic conversations within the classroom environment.
- District Endorsement:
“Feedback from teachers and staff was positive, particularly regarding the platform’s ease of use and its ability to support meaningful conversations without requiring extensive preparation… The program served as a practical resource that complemented existing efforts within our schools.”
— Matt Orebaugh, Director of PE & Health, Virginia Beach School District
IV. Real Student Impact & Feedback
- Immediate Awareness: Combats the dangerous lack of knowledge surrounding synthetic drugs and hidden fentanyl.
- Peer-to-Peer Advocacy: Promotes student-led awareness, inspiring youth to take accountability for one another.
- School Friendly- Time consuming assemblies are not needed, and students miss little to no classroom time,
- Student Voices – Immediate Lesson Feedback
“Until I viewed the video, I did not know anything about fentanyl… I believe that programs like the Sold Out Foundation are the best way to stop further fentanyl poisoning from hurting students.”
— Kota, Student, Galileo Academy of Science and Technology (SFUSD)
Four (4) Main Program Platforms
- School Staff Counselor Online Education Resource Platform https://soldouttv.com/counselor-preparation-packet/ (pw: counselor100)
- Adult (Parental) Online Learning Platform (Delivered through district portal) https://soldouttv.com/parental-curriculum/ (pw: parent100)
- Student in classroom Fentanyl Education Program with online follow-up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16IyQ_tAI9Y&t=3s
- Proactive Accountable Student Alcohol / Drug Abstinence Pledge Program https://soldouttv.com/the-sold-out-pledge/
Program Positives
- Students do not miss any significant classroom time
- No assemblies (Executed in either homeroom, PE Health, or Elective classes)
- Requires no extra work by principals or teacher / facilitators
- Provides counselors with critical online drug & alcohol prevention tools and resources
- Flexible: Student Video Presentation executed less than 15 minutes 1X during school year
- Risk Mitigation: All parents receive online Drug (Fentanyl) Alcohol Ed. by parental portal
- Technology Friendly – Staff, parents, and students learn life-saving education through their private devices, and through schools already existing communications apparatus
- Provides tools and resources for Health Department and law enforcement (SRO Program)
- Athletic Program- Serving coaches and PE / Health Teachers
- Student Feedback / Response with proven results (Executed 5/26 in 6 SFUPS High Schools)
- Meets requirement for County Opioid Settlement Funding / Cost-effective
Why this works
✓ Schools provide the largest, most direct reach to high-risk youth
✓ Education is delivered in classroom consistently and at scale
✓ Outcomes are measurable and proven
✓ Privacy and security standards meet government-grade requirements
✓ This model pairs education with accountability
✓ Education is delivered in classroom consistently and at scale
✓ Outcomes are measurable and proven
✓ Privacy and security standards meet government-grade requirements
✓ This model pairs education with accountability
Bottom line
Education that is measured, verified, and delivered at scale saves lives and public resources. SOYF provides a proactive, practical, accountable prevention tool to strengthen the nation’s response to fentanyl – starting where risk is highest, and reach is greatest in public schools.
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Roman Gabriel III
Founder & CEO, Sold Out Youth Foundation
Roman Gabriel III is a national leader in school-based alcohol, drug, and fentanyl prevention education with over two decades of experience working across public schools, military installations, and community systems nationwide. Since 2012, he has led the development and deployment of one of the first researched technology-enabled fentanyl education platforms designed specifically for in-classroom use with measurable outcomes.
