Teen deaths from fentanyl overdose rose 20% last year - who is to blame and what can be done?
Teen overdose deaths have never been higher in the US as young Americans are increasingly poisoned by the synthetic opiate fentanyl, even as fewer teens use drugs.
"She was a beautiful, sweet girl coming from hardworking parents," her uncle Oscar said at a candlelight vigil on the steps of Bernstein High School, where friends and family prayed in Spanish and placed flowers on a shrine to Melanie. The US is an outlier when it comes to overdoses, with a death rate 20 times the global average - although Scotland is not far behind.
At a contentious meeting at Bernstein High School, where Melanie died, officials and police warned upset families and children that "one pill can kill".