12 Sheriff’s came to the Lost Voices Of Fentanyl DC Rally in Washington DC on Saturday, Sept. 17.
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Grieving Parents Rally Against Fentanyl in Washington, DC
Washington Post Lost Voices of Fentanyl Rally Coverage
Families devastated by fentanyl deaths rally near the White House
April Babcock and Virginia Krieger both lost children to the powerful synthetic opioid fentanyl and have pleaded with lawmakers and officials to ramp up enforcement along the U.S.-Mexico border to stop the flow of illicit drugs.
On Saturday, the mothers built a kind of wall.
Fifty banners stretched for about 400 feet, nearly spanning the width of the National Mall. They featured faces of nearly 3,500 people who lost their lives to fentanyl. Many were young, even teenagers. Some wore their high school jerseys or graduation caps. They smiled, forever frozen in time on the banners, which Babcock said represented the thousands of people who have died of opioid use.
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Chad Pergram of Fox News coverage of Fentanyl WMD request
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.
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.
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22 Pounds of fentanyl siezed in Forsyth County
Detectives in Forsyth County, North Carolina, have seized over $2.6 million of fentanyl – enough of the deadly drug to kill 5 million people – in the largest bust in the county’s history, authorities said last week.
Read the full story here.
222 people died from overdoses in Wake County last year
222 people died from overdoses in Wake last year. Here is the county’s opioids plan.
With a solemn but hopeful yes, Wake leaders put the county’s first dollars from the national opioid settlement into action Tuesday night. “We’re taking a comprehensive approach to get folks on the path to recovery,” said Denise Forman, assistant Wake County manager.
Read the article on the N&O web site.