Wednesday is National Fentanyl Awareness Day, and one local mother said she’s on a mission to make sure no one else dies of an accidental overdose, like what happened to her 18-year-old son.
Michelle Leopold and her husband own six hardware stores across the Bay Area. On Tuesday at their Ace Hardware store in Antioch, she’s handing out Narcan and fentanyl test kits.
“As you guys know, Jeff and I feel strongly about educating all of our team members,” she said standing under a pop-up tent in front of the store. There are tables filled with information, photos and overdose recovery kits.
This is personal for her. Trevor Leopold, her son, died from an accidental fentanyl overdose in 2019.
“Nobody was talking about fentanyl four and a half years ago. No body knew what fentanyl was,” said Leopold.
He was a freshman at Sonoma State University at the time and took what he thought was an oxycodone pill, but it contained enough fentanyl to be fatal.