My son died when he used cocaine unknowingly laced with Fentanyl. Another young, 18 yr old family friend recently died when he took a pill that turned out to be a fake Oxytocin pressed with Fentanyl. Last year, according to the latest CDC provisional data, over 93,000 Americans died from overdose during the 12 month period between December 2019 and December 2020. It is estimated that the majority of those deaths were due to opioids, primarily synthetic Fentanyl that is pouring into our country. Our kids are dying in record numbers, sometimes after trying pills just one time. There is nothing funny about T-shirts that promote drug use.
And there is nothing funny about the potential dangers faced everyday by Law Enforcement and the general public when it comes to this highly potent opioid. It is irresponsible to support the proliferation of any messaging that minimizes the dangers of illicit drug use - particularly Fentanyl - which takes only 2 milligrams or less to end a life and is 50 to 100 times more potent than Morphine.
We are calling on Amazon and other retailers like Etsy and Redbubble to stop the sale of T-shirts that minimize or seek to satirize or joke about the use of Fentanyl or any other addictive, harmful, illicit drug. It's time to Speakup About Drugs to save lives! Please sign the petition to ask Amazon to REMOVE these T-shirts from their marketplace.
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