Beat Fentanyl ACTS (amplifies, clarifies and teams up) to spread awareness and prevent Fentanyl poisoning and deaths. Let’s work together and BEAT Fentanyl!
Over 2,100 #CADCAForum attendees visited Washington, D.C. today to represent their communities and advocate on Capitol Hill for better substance use and misuse prevention measures in their states. Thank you to all State and Territory offices for being so welcoming and receptive!
After attending an all day fentanyl discussion yesterday and reading this brief, I am reminded that any serious approach to mitigating the harms of the drug problem must include each of law enforcement, treatment, harm reduction, and primary prevention.
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If you have kids in your life… or PEOPLE in your life and are not following @LauraADidier , please do. She’s working to save their lives. Thank you for sharing, Laura. We will too. #beatfentanyl
We are so sorry for your loss and that bereaved parents like you are left to try to educate the rest of us on this national crisis. Thank you for sharing @c0lettea . We will too. #beatfentanyl
Sorry Bob - I am not calling you out but this is a response that I get a lot and it's a sign that the public still doesn't understand the nature of this illicit fentanyl crisis. I am going to use your response as an opportunity to educate them.
My daughter DID NOT "use drugs" - she merely hurt her back. Someone did something that happens EVERY DAY in this country - they shared what appeared to be prescription medication.
An aquaintance offered her what looked like a trademarked Percocet to help ease her pain until her neurosurgeon appointment. She knew what Percocet was from her wisdom teeth. But the pill she was given WAS NOT a real Percocet. It was a fake pill deliberately made to resemble a safe trademarked pharmaceutical product in a calculated, willful and deliberate effort to deceive.
Instead of the medication it's form advertised it was made up of illicit fentanyl and it killed her almost instantly. She had no reason whatsoever to suspect it was a counterfeit pill and she did not make a "choice" to consume illicit fentanyl. Tiffany's sudden and traumatic loss cripped our entire family, she left behind two young children at the ages of 3 and 5 years old who remain traumatized. My youngest son fell into addiction himself from the grief, he nearly died 3 times from illicit fentanyl in methamphetamines. 8 years later we continue to suffer, my family can never be fixed, restored or made whole.
This same scenario of deceptive poisoning is happening thousands of times a day EVERY DAY in this country for 10 years now resulting in countless near death injuries and deaths.
Anytime a person willfully disguises a harmful substance as something else less harmful OR when a person willfully hides a harmful substance by putting it into ANYTHING for another to consume without the consumers knowledge or intent, and it causes harm or death... it is 100% a POISONING.
So far this year more than 51 million of these fake pills have been seized by our law enforcement agencies - 7 out of 10 pills tested contained a lethal amount of illicit fentanyl.
Every recreational drug on the black market today has been found with illicit fentanyl contamination including marijuana, ecstasy, cocaine, methamphetamines and heroin. Fake pills are spreading like wildfire which resemble Ativan, Percocet, Oxycodone, Oxycontin, Adderall and more.
Illicit fentanyl IS NOT the same as prescription grade fentanyl. It is a modified version of the fentanyl molecule with added branches and/or chemical replacements are made during it's processing on purpose to create a far more potent products than prescription grade products. 2 mg or less can kill. There are currently approximately 300- 500 different analogues or versions of illicit fentanyl on the street today including Carfentanil, Acetylfentanyl and Parafluorofentanyl to name just a few.
Why would China do this? To destablize the U.S. and deplete our future military. Grieving parents often lose the will to live and can't function. So far more than 300,000 American's have died at the hands of China and they never had to fire a single shot. Millions more have been sickened into addiction.
Why do the cartels and drug traffickers do this? In an effort to deceptively "flip the genetic switch" on addiction by exposure- to incite a rapid addiction to their new product line in unknowing consumers. The more they get addicted the more money they can make, but they are killing people in the process and they know it, they just don't care.
This isn't a health crisis, this is classic unrestricted drug warfare and China is the very head of the snake working in collaboration with Mexico's drug cartels.
We have a poisoning crisis in the U.S. at the hands of one of our biggest foreign adversaries.
It's well past time we acknowledge this crisis for what it is - A POISONING CRISIS - and work to stop it instead of finding ways to blame it's victims.
Actually, far, far less than one pill kills. We met a mom who lost two sons to a pill they split. A deadly dose is the size of a few grains of salt. Thanks for sharing @onepillkills! We will too. #beatfentanyl
Our heartfelt gratitude to everyone who came to our event last Friday evening. Your presence and support energize us in our mission to combat drug abuse. Together, we can make a real difference and create a safer and healthier community for all. #OverdoseAware#stopfentanyl
@cnn read your own bio. Loads of bereaved parents stood in the rain at the #lvof rally on Sat to bring attention to Fentanyl poisoning and save the rest of us. Where were you guys? Helping Sophia up from her fall? #gothere We need your help.
This is a big weekend for ordinary Americans trying to get some justice from the prescription opioid epidemic + fentanyl poisoning.
Today at 2PM at @TheJusticeDept, Relatives Against Purdue Pharma will lead a 2-hour rally demanding the @DOJCrimDiv open a criminal probe on the Sacklers.
And tmmrw is the 3rd Annual Lost Voices of Fentanyl Rally - The Dead Speak - at the Washington Monument and then on to the White House.
NY Sun has a front page story today about tomorrow's rally.
Here is the link - https://t.co/4vduAVOzh8.
Since it is a paywall, for those of you attending the rallies and who do not have a subscription to the Sun, the article is attached in pictures
Good luck today @ejb1893 on getting some justice with the Sacklers. Sorry @trishaposner and I don't get in early enough to join you. As for @LVOFentanyl, see you tomorrow!
#fentanyl #oxycontin
@#opioids. .
@CNN@cnnbrk@CNNSitRoom why didn’t you cover the #lvof rally in DC on Sat? When are you going to show up for the hundreds of thousands of victims of fentanyl poisoning & their 2M+grieving loved ones? When are you going to show up for the rest of us that THEY are trying to save?
“This is a poisoning against our kids and our future generation.”
Former Director of DEA Special Operations Division @derekmaltz_sr says 9,000 kids a month are dying from fentanyl in the U.S.
@RealMirandaKhan
Watch our coverage of the Lost Voices of Fentanyl rally: https://t.co/2XEsns9u9I