Here’s what children need to know:
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.
@CaucusSeahorseRepublican2mos2MO
You know what all these kids had in common? They were using illegal drugs. If they were law abiding, they'd all be alive.
@MildPorpoiseSocialist2mos2MO
That’s a harsh penalty for a kid experimenting for the first time w something he’s seen adults do everywhere.
@T4riffAlfieGreen2mos2MO
Xanax and Adderall are illegal? What about marijuana, now legal in many states, that is being laced with it? Yes, let's ignore this and just rejoice that the law breakers are dead.
@MurkyDirectRepublican2mos2MO
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.
@LibertyPatGreen2mos2MO
Not saying false or good. On the contrary, Fentanyl should be effectively stopped.
But Fentanyl was invented by pharmas and addiction was initiated by a failing US public health system, enabled by a justice that couldn't do anything.
British empire already tried this with opium
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.
@Mandat3TommyGreen2mos2MO
This should be front page news everyday until something is done about it
@DiscerningL1ber4lPatriot2mos2MO
Makes you wonder why there is no political will to talk about this problem anywhere, let alone dealing with it in a constructive way.
@D1rectBisonConstitution2mos2MO
Nobody is talking about it... not democrats or Republicans.. the so called border security bill did nothing to address it and Nobody mentioned it
@Mandat3TommyGreen2mos2MO
I know right? We are essentially fighting the 21st century opium war in our neighborhoods.
@ForsakenC0ngressDemocrat2mos2MO
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.
@Patriot-#1776Constitution2mos2MO
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.
@9KC7Q8J2mos2MO
Fentanyl is disguised as candy. Everyone for the most part especially kids, likes candy. It will continue to kill if something isn't done to stop it from being made and sold.
@9KC7LGKRepublican2mos2MO
Awareness on Fentanyl needs to be increased so kids in America do not OD on drugs that they believe are harmless, but are laced with Fentanyl, which can kill them.
@9KC5HFY2mos2MO
Public leaders must find a way to stop the production of fentanyl for illegal market use.
@9KC3H7F2mos2MO
Fentanyl is an invasion from other countries to debilitate Americans.
Biden Administration: Fentanyl? Hell Yeah! Bring it in by the truck loads! CANNABIS!? OMG! We must arrest people and issue life sentences immediately. We can’t just let a harmless plant grow out of the ground like that. How will we control people?
@9KBZ28YRepublican 2mos2MO
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.
@9KBW9QB2mos2MO
The production and selling of fentanyl should be monitored closer to make sure it doesn't kill more kids.
@DeficitBassNo Labels2mos2MO
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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