EUGENE, Ore. – The Association of People Against Lethal Drugs held a gathering outside the Eugene Federal Building on Saturday to raise awareness and combat the synthetic drug crisis.
Over the past two decades, overdose deaths in the United States have risen nearly every year, repeatedly breaking records. This has become the deadliest drug epidemic in the nation’s history.
Sarah Vail is an advocate with APALD after her daughter purchased what she thought was oxycontin but instead received a lethal dose of pure fentanyl. “The goal is that a parent will have a conversation that maybe they wouldn’t have, they drive by, see our signs, talk in the car and educate their children about fentanyl,” Vail said. “Maybe a teenager that would’ve taken a pill pauses before they do and they don’t take that pill and we save a life.”…