Mother of addict sounds alarm on California fentanyl crisis: Politicians need to wake up

A California mom whose son is battling fentanyl dependancy spoke out Monday on the opioid epidemic as growing fentanyl-related deaths ravage communities throughout the nation. 

SAN FRANCISCO’S FENTANYL CRISIS CAUSING OVERDOSES, CRIME: MOTHERS AGAINST DRUG DEATHS CO-FOUNDER

Co-founder of Moms Towards Drug Deaths Jacqui Berlinn sounded the alarm on “America’s Newsroom” warning there has not been adequate change as households nationwide are devastated by the drug. 

“I’ve been protesting fentanyl sellers and the fentanyl disaster because the starting of 2021, and I’ve not seen any change,” Berlinn instructed co-host Invoice Hemmer. “I have been making an attempt to get our flesh pressers to get up and understand what a disaster that is.”

“My son is an addict on the streets in San Francisco,” she continued. “He is a fentanyl addict. My worry is that he’ll change into a statistic, so I began this battle again in 2021, and I’m not seeing the development that the American individuals have to see with a view to battle this epidemic.”

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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) warned final week fentanyl overdoses are going down at an “unprecedented charge” with 29 individuals lifeless and one other 58 individuals who overdosed in current weeks. 

There have been at the very least seven mass-overdose occasions in varied states, together with Colorado, Texas, Nebraska and Florida.

“My son instructed me that he is seeing new faces coming into the town, shopping for fentanyl and bringing it out to the suburbs,” mentioned Berlinn. “He is additionally seeing youthful individuals, many highschool college students coming in and utilizing fentanyl, so my concern may be very actual that that is spreading shortly, and we have to carry consciousness and training.”

Berlinn appeared on “Tucker Carlson Tonight” final week highlighting the impact the drug has had on crime inside San Francisco. 

“[S]o many individuals are dying on the streets, about two a day in San Francisco from fentanyl overdoses,” she instructed host Tucker Carlson. “The open-air drug market additionally will increase crime. Simply within the final eight days – the primary eight days of April – there have been eight shootings, 4 [of] which have resulted in deaths.”

Berlinn’s group put up a billboard in San Francisco’s Union Sq. that claims, “Well-known the world over for our brains, magnificence and now dirt-cheap fentanyl,” calling for an finish to open-air drug markets.