Fox News interview with Dr. Nesheiwat on September 17, 2022 where she discussed pill contamination, the source of fentanyl, and more.
Category: Fentanyl
Chad Pergram of Fox News coverage of Fentanyl WMD request
Lost voices of fentanyl: A Lake Worth Beach mother’s heartbreak
A Lake Worth Beach mother lost her daughter, Jenny, to a fentanyl overdose in April 2020, and wants the public to understand just how deadly the drug is. Watch the story from WPTV News (FL Palm Beaches and Treasure Coast).
Watch the story on YouTube.
WPLG Local10 coverage of DC Rally
Fentanyl protest in Washington D.C. included several families from South Florida
WASHINGTON – Several South Florida families joined a large protest in Washington D.C.
The protest, which was organized by Lost Voices of Fentanyl, took place outside the White House on Saturday.
Read the full article on the Local10 web site.
Republicans Host Parents of Fentanyl Victims
Republicans Host Parents of Fentanyl Victims: Our Children Didn’t Overdose; ‘They Were Poisoned’
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 parents’ resounding message at the roundtable, led by Rep. Jim Banks (R-IN) and the Republican Study Committee, was that their children had been “poisoned” and that their deaths were not overdoses.
Read the full article on Breitbart News.
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, 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.
Fentanyl Awareness from HCA Healthcare
The HCA Healthcare Center for Clinical Advancement has put together a powerful resource for helping raise fentanyl awareness.
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, Sept. 15, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — A group of sheriffs from around the country – including several who just visited the border – will hold a press conference on Friday, September 16, at 10:00 a.m. E.T. They will be accompanied by Congressman Chip Roy (R-TX), Congressman Michael Cloud (R-TX), as well as fentanyl activist Virginia Krieger.
Read the full media advisory on the PR Newswire web site.
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
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 — 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 … 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.
Read the full article on the Fox News web site.
Narcan Vending Machine in Orange County
This new vending machine in Orange County could save opioid users’ lives
People who use opioids and are at-risk of an accidental overdose can now get a life-saving overdose reversal kit — 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.
Read full article on Aol/News & Observer.