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Fentanyl: The Counterfeit Killer

Fentanyl: The Counterfeit Killer

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Fentanyl – in the same chemical family as opium and heroin but manufactured by amateurs in garages or kitchen sinks – is tearing Kern County families apart. Many don’t know what’s happening until their children are dead. Now, families affected are warning others to look for those warning signs and encouraging parents to have these conversations about drugs with their children before it’s too late.Copyright KGET News Ciencias Sociales
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  • 06. Roundtable

    06. Roundtable
    Jul 14 2021
    A supplementary conversation to Fentanyl: The Counterfeit Killer with four families who have been affected by the synthetic opioid.
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    7 m
  • 05. Forever 18

    05. Forever 18
    Jul 1 2021
    "Why" is a common question among the parents and family members of people lost to America's illicit drug de jour, the powerful opioid fentanyl. Answers are hard to come by. Harder still is figuring out what to do about it. Carrie Walker is one of those parents but she has decided on a path forward. Her eldest son, Alexander Cullers, died of an opiate overdose in 2014 at the age of 18. He'd taken some prescription oxycodone from his girlfriend's grandmother's medicine cabinet. Losing a son would devastate any mother. But then in April 2019 Walker's other son, Andrew Cullers - by then 18 himself - died of an overdose too. In his case, fentanyl, counterfeit oxycodone.
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    10 m
  • 04. Balloons in Heaven

    04. Balloons in Heaven
    Jul 1 2021
    It was Feb. 19, 2020. Katie Coughenour walked into a restroom a few steps down the hall from the front door of Aspire Behavioral Health, her counseling program, and locked the door. She did not walk out. How does an 18-year-old get her hands on counterfeit oxycodone - fentanyl pills? In Katie's case, with that handy little ubiquitous device most of us carry around like extra appendages - the cell phone.
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    8 m
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