People on the front line of the crisis say concerns are growing with fentanyl, and in response, Nevada Senator Jacky Rosen is targeting the border to stop the drugs there before they get here.
“When I was 14, I got sober. If I was still out there today, I wouldn’t be talking to you right now,” advocate Landynn Meyers tells us.
KTNVHe is glad he got clean five years ago as fentanyl is being found in more drugs, and more people are dying.
“It is just killing people like that because they do not know what they are taking,” Meyers continued.
He gives and gets support from the organization There is No Hero in Heroin in Las Vegas, a facility helping people with substance abuse disorder.
We also spoke with TINHIH CEO Ari Chelli.
“We see about 250 adolescents per quarter…it is pretty alarming, and primarily that is because fentanyl poisoning is happening across multiple substances,” she said.
She says from 2018 to 2019, overdose deaths more than doubled.
“We just can’t keep up with the landscape changing all the time,” Chelli continued.