Fentanyl Is Killing American Kids. Most Don’t Even Know They’re Taking It.
Here’s what children need to know:
- There is a poison killing 200 Americans of all ages, backgrounds, and races every single day. It’s called fentanyl. Most kids who die from it don’t even know they are taking it.
- Drug dealers are selling fake pills, cocaine, and meth with fentanyl to boost their profits.
- These fake pills look identical to the real ones—Xanax, Adderall, Oxycontin, Percocet, and others. You cannot see, smell, or taste fentanyl. Even DEA agents can’t tell the difference between what’s real and fake.
- Do not accept any pill of any kind if it didn’t come from a doctor or pharmacist. Even if your best friend offers you a pill, they won’t know if it contains fentanyl.
The CDC has taken a bizarre approach to the fentanyl crisis. Although the agency’s official fact sheet warns of the deadly risks of the substance, it also suggests the public need only use test strips to ensure the drugs they take are safe.
But this advice is dangerous. Though test strips tout a 96 percent accuracy rate, that’s true only if the tested sample reflects the entire contents of a pill. As we saw in the tragic case of Breanna Scott, two halves of the same pill led to two radically different fates.
The CDC also recommends the nasal spray Narcan as a lifesaving cure for fentanyl overdose victims. Narcan can, has, and will continue to save lives, but it’s no panacea. For one, stocking it inside American schools—a gargantuan and costly task—will do nothing to help the 82 percent of teens who overdose at their or someone else’s home. What’s more, thirty percent of fatal adolescent overdoses happen when the victim is alone. Narcan is useless if no one is around to administer it.
As part of the organization I launched last year, Not Even Once, I’ve spoken to over 15,000 middle and high school students to educate them on the dangers of this drug. Part of my reason is personal. When I was eight years old, I lost my uncle Mike to his prolonged battle with illegal drugs on the streets. Then, his poison was heroin. But even that dangerous drug is nothing compared to what kids are facing now.
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You know what all these kids had in common? They were using illegal drugs. If they were law abiding, they'd all be alive.
@MildPorpoiseSocialist2yrs2Y
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@MurkyDirectRepublican2yrs2Y
China already is waging war with the US, but not with guns — with poison. In his new book, “Blood Money,” Peter Schweizer explains how Communist China mass produces and distributes fentanyl, a chemical thirty to fifty times as powerful as heroin, to poison Americans.
@LibertyPatGreen2yrs2Y
My kiddo grew up in SF so we had the talk about why he can’t experiment with drugs the way kids maybe used to when he was 10. He has eyes, he gets why. Honestly him spending his early years in SF might be the best drug prevention program. He’s seen some things.
@Mandat3TommyGreen2yrs2Y
Makes you wonder why there is no political will to talk about this problem anywhere, let alone dealing with it in a constructive way.
@D1rectBisonConstitution2yrs2Y
Nobody is talking about it... not democrats or Republicans.. the so called border security bill did nothing to address it and Nobody mentioned it
@Mandat3TommyGreen2yrs2Y
This lede is buried routinely because the facts surrounding the explosive growth of Mexican drug cartels the past ~10y (WSJ 2.24), the migrant crisis, and perils of the white working class (aka trailer trash) don’t fit neatly into the far-left narrative or their growing AI LLMs.
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@9KBZ28YRepublican 2yrs2Y
We are under a fentanyl attack and no one seems to care about it. Fentanyl is not a left side topic or a right side topic. It is a world topic that we should all be fighting to solve but all we seem to care about is if our current president is able to do his job or not and how people can make it where trump cant win the election.
@9KBW9QB2yrs2Y
This is not a drug overdoes crisis – this is biological warfare and mass poisoning. The only solution is to secure our borders, shoot the cartels stone cold dead, finish the wall, deport all criminal aliens, and execute fentanyl traffickers. We have got to take this bioterrorism like the serious threat it is and hammer into the thick skulls of these nefarious criminals that in the United States of America, if you poison our children, you'll have hell to pay.
@DeficitBassNo Labels2yrs2Y
My nephew died of fentanyl overdose last year. I mentioned it at my church and a woman in our congregation told me four of her friends had lost children to fentanyl in the previous year. A cop in our congregation told me his denture dept used to pass out maybe one "lifesaver" award each year. He said he has earned 15 himself in the past five years. All for saving kids from fentanyl overdose. I didn't ask him how many he couldn't save.
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