Fentanyl is real and what you hear is true! [View all]

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I feel compelled to write this because I've read some posts here on DU that deny this is happening.

I am a mother who has lost a child to fentanyl poisoning. Every year on August 31, CT host an overdose awareness day at the state capital. I have been involved with this group since 2019. We are losing 274 young people a day to Fentanyl and that's a fact.

In 2019 when I got my phone call from Hartford police in regards to my son John it changed my life.
I got connected with a man named John Lally, he had lost his son in 2016 to fentanyl poisoning. John created a support group of "Today I Matter," after his son TiM. He coordinates CT overdose awareness day on August 31. (he travels around the country)

This past year on overdose awareness day John was invited to Washington DC to meet with Doulas Emhoff, our second gentleman and Dr. Rahul Gupta the director of national drug control to discuss Fentanyl deaths and fentanyl coming over the border. (it has been coming over for many many years). Our goal is to make Fentanyl a weapon of mass destruction. My Granddaughter comes with me to the capital every year and this year she got educated on rainbow fentanyl and she's 10.

I can't for the life of me understand how this became a political issue but I need help in making it stop. I'm reaching out to DU today to ask that you please stop joking about it. Rainbow Fentanyl is real and we just had a bust here in Hartford with rainbow fentanyl being transported in skittles bags and nerd boxes of candy. Now I know Halloween is coming and the fears of fentanyl being given out is no greater than the razor blade in the apple thing.

The new fentanyl called "carfentanil" is more powerful than regular fentanyl. ODs from carfentanil need multiple narcans because it's that strong. I've had people come into detox who were narcanned 4 or 5 times. When we do the drug test on them, there's cocaine and multiple drugs in their body. When we ask them about it they swear they only did "fetti". Point being the makers don't care about cross contamination of other drugs.

It's only getting attention now because recreational users are dying from Fentanyl. They could be a college student wanting to stay up to study for exams and they buy adderall. It has the correct markings of adderall so one would think it's a real adderall but it is not. It's the same with percocets and even pot has been found laced with fentanyl.

You can google everything I have typed here if you don't believe me and you will see it's real. With that said I can't be the only DU person who's had someone die of fentanyl, it's that rampant.

Thank you to those who read this.