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Column: New short film is a visceral scream warning teens about fentanyl's danger

The president of Victims of Illicit Drugs, Jaime Puerta, recalls the loss of his only child after the latter contacted a dealer on Snapchat

Don't show me this message again✕ In tears, Courtney Ross told a courtroom in Minnesota that her relationship with boyfriend George Floyd involved a “classic story” of addiction to opioids. “Addiction, in my opinion, is a lifelong struggle and something that we dealt with every day,” she said during the fourth day of the criminal trial of Derek Chauvin, a now-former Minneapolis Police Department officer charged with murdering Mr Floyd, whose death galvanised an international movement for justice for the killings of Black Americans by police. Her remarks – among several emotional t...

Bereaved parents gather in San Bernardino to demand stiffer penalties in fentanyl-related deaths [San Bernardino County Sun, Calif.] Dec. 10—They stood on the steps outside the San Bernardino Police Department on Wednesday, Dec. 9, the parents of children whose lives were cut short by a cheap synthetic opiod called fentanyl, demanding stiffer penalties for dealers who sold their children the drug. They held signs saying, “Why are drug dealers getting away with murder?” “Re-activate investigations on street drug poisonings,” and “Forgotten victims of drug induced homicide. We will ...