PENSACOLA, Fla. (WALA) – A Pensacola couple who spent five years fighting the fentanyl crisis in their community is now facing a $1.8 million medical bill after one of them received a liver transplant.
Matthew and Melissa Pusch lost their son in 2016 to fentanyl poisoning. In the years that followed, the couple organized awareness walks and opened a distribution point for Narcan in the Pensacola area.
On Aug. 31, 2024 — the day they had planned a fentanyl awareness walk — Matthew was hospitalized…