The DEA says fentanyl is running rampant across our state and country. They say seven out of every 10 pills they’ve tested in the last year, have tested positive for fentanyl.
Cleveland Police hosted an assembly Thursday for all the Cleveland middle and high school students where victims’ families and law enforcement talked about the dangers of drugs.
The families of these victims and law enforcement say this fentanyl crisis is just getting worse and killing loved ones day after day. They say their only hope to reverse this trend is to give these kids a hard dose of reality.
Nearly 800 Cleveland students walked into their gym Thursday and saw the walls lined with 82 posters of young people who have recently died from drug overdoses. Many of them died because of one decision, to take a pill.
“Just in the last month, we’ve added 12 more families to our group. That’s how much fentanyl is destroying our country,” said Diane Searle with Families Supporting Families.
Searle started the group Families Supporting Families after losing her 19-year-old daughter to heroin.