Parents whose children died after unknowingly ingesting fentanyl joined House Republicans at a roundtable Thursday to tell their stories and implore Congress to act on the growing epidemic.
The parents’ resounding message at the roundtable, led by Rep. Jim Banks and the Republican Study Committee, was that their children had been “poisoned” and that their deaths were not overdoses.
Walsh noted she has waited 13 months and is still waiting for a prosecution in her daughter’s case that may or may not come.Patricia Drewes, who also lost her 24-year-old daughter, her only child, brought with her to the roundtable a box of obituaries she said she had collected from across the country of those who died from fentanyl.
“Fourteen months ago today I hugged my son for the last time,” Lori Ashenfelder said tearfully at the event of her late son, Dean, who died at 31. Ashenfelder said her son struggled with addiction for years after being prescribed opioids for an injury. Synthetic fentanyl is highly addictive and becomes deadly at just two milligrams, according to the Drug Enforcement Agency , whichmore than 70,000 individuals died from synthetic opioids, which include fentanyl, from January 2021 to January 2022.
Synthetic fentanyl is “a manmade drug, 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine,” Nate Moellering said at the roundtable. Moellering now works at a recovery center after he himself struggled for a decade with addiction, asMoellering explained that fentanyl is “made in China. China sends it to Mexico, and they bring it through the Mexico border.”
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