National Fentanyl Awareness Day is a day of action to raise public awareness about an urgent problem: people dying at alarming rates due to illegally made fentanyl (FEN-ta-nyl), a dangerous synthetic opioid.
We survive because we must, whether it is for our children who are living, to honor our loved ones in some unique way, or because there is no other choice.
While no amount of money will ever compensate for the staggering loss of life caused by the opioid crisis, the resolution of this and other cases will provide unprecedented funding to address it.