Republicans Host Parents of Fentanyl Victims

Republicans Host Parents of Fentanyl Victims: Our Children Didnโ€™t Overdose; โ€˜They Were Poisonedโ€™

Parents whose children died after unknowingly ingesting fentanyl joined House Republicans at a roundtable Thursday to tell their stories and implore Congress to act on the growing epidemic.

The parentsโ€™ resounding message at the roundtable, led by Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) and the Republican Study Committee, was that their children had been โ€œpoisonedโ€ and that their deaths were not overdoses.

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FVNNC Members attend Roundtable on Deadly Fentanyl Crisis

On Thursday Sept 15 Rep Jim Banks (IN) hosted a Roundtable on Deadly Fentanyl Crisis. Lori and Dean Ashenfelder, ย Patricia Drewes, Wendy Thomas, and Barb Walsh participated. Fox News interviewed Nate Moellering on Friday Sept 16 on the America’s Newsroom. At the 3:25 mark you can see the Wendy and Patricia to Nate’s right in one of the still photos used during the interview.

Sheriffs Press Conference on Upcoming Rally to Stop Fentanyl Poisonings

Media Advisory: Sheriffs Press Conference on Biden Border Crisis, Upcoming Rally to Stop Fentanyl Poisonings

WASHINGTON,ย Sept. 15, 2022ย /PRNewswire/ — A group of sheriffs from around the country โ€“ including several who just visited the border โ€“ will hold a press conference onย Friday, September 16, atย 10:00 a.m. E.T.ย They will be accompanied by Congressmanย Chip Royย (R-TX), Congressmanย Michael Cloudย (R-TX), as well as fentanyl activistย Virginia Krieger.

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Fentanyl in Disguise

Fentanyl in disguise: Expert calls deadly opioid’s presence a ‘slow-motion chemical weapon attack’

A record 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses and poisonings last year

Rainbow Fentanyl

Fentanyl is more frequently appearing in disguised forms like prescription pills and “rainbow fentanyl.”

Unsuspecting victims are also coming in contact with the illicit opioid, which is up to 50 times stronger than heroin and deadly in small amounts, on or in everyday objects, according to law enforcement agencies and other experts who have warned of the presence of fentanyl on cash bills and food products.

“You can make a lot of money by doing good โ€” by providing services and food and creations that are beneficial to humanity in all types of ways. …Instead, [drug manufacturers and smugglers] are participating in evil in order to advance a โ€ฆ method or a movement in order to disrupt the United States as much as possible. It is a slow-motion chemical weapon attack, I think, that’s being perpetrated by China and a third opium war,”

Jim Rauh, founder of the nonprofit organization Families Against Fentanyl, told Fox News Digital.

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Narcan Vending Machine in Orange County

This new vending machine in Orange County could save opioid usersโ€™ lives

Narcan Nasal Spray

People who use opioids and are at-risk of an accidental overdose can now get a life-saving overdose reversal kit โ€” from a local vending machine.

The Orange County jail has become one of the few facilities in the state to offer free Narcan nasal spray for drug overdoses, county officials announced.

Narcan, a medicine used to quickly treat an opioid overdose, is available 24 hours a day in a vending machine in the lobby of the Orange County Detention Center at 1200 U.S. 70 West in Hillsborough.

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