Every day, more than 200 people are dying due to synthetic opioids like fentanyl in the United States. Opioid overdoses know no bounds and often impact the most vulnerable. The increased lethality of synthetic opioids exacerbates these dangers, and the cost of lives is stark.
In the attached letter, 27 advocacy organizations including Mothers Against Prescription Drug Abuse are calling on state leaders to do more to protect Americans from this new wave of the opioid epidemic.
Without the most effective policies in place, more Americans will die unnecessarily from fentanyl. We need to equip communities with every tool in the fentanyl overdose and opioid epidemic toolkit. Together, we can make a difference in the lives of our children, neighbors, friends and co-workers.