LOS ANGELES, Calif., Sept. 20, 2022 (SEND2PRESS NEWSWIRE) — Fentanyl is a classic case ofĀ āwhat you donāt know can kill you.ā Drug education and prevention have never been more important. Learn the truth about the deadly opioid fentanyl. And learn what you can do about it on the Scientology Network.
PHOTO CAPTION: After learning the truth about drugs from Foundation for a Drug-Free World, youth sign a pledge to live drug-free.
Centers for Disease Control and PreventionĀ (CDC)Ā estimates that some 108,000 people in the U.S. died of drug overdoses between February 2021 and February 2022. Of those, more than 70 percent involved fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.
A cousin to heroin, fentanyl is much deadlier because it is so much stronger ā 50 times more potent than heroin, according to the CDC. A dose of only 2ā3 milligrams can be fatal. That much of the drug would be smaller than the tip of a ballpoint pen.
A fine powder, fentanyl is easy to mix into other drugs. It looks identical to heroin, so users, injecting heroin laced with fentanyl, wonāt know theyāre injecting a lethal dose until itās too late. In Connecticut, for example, 85 percent of drug overdose deaths involved fentanyl last year.
āHeroin and opiate addiction in America is a pandemic,ā warned Steered Straight founder Michael DeLeonĀ in a blog in June 2020. āI have used the word epidemic many times during this escalation of death, but we are at pandemic levels. The problem and the systemic danger to all of us is getting worse. We are facing a Synthetic Storm.ā
Steered Straight is a nonprofit organization providing educational programs and materials to youth, families and communities across the country and around the world. DeLeon is the #1 booked drug prevention lecturer in U.S. schools.
āParents ask me all the time what they can do to prevent their child from growing up to struggle with addiction. How can it be prevented?ā says DeLeon. His answer is, you have toĀ educateĀ todayās youth to stay on the right path when it comes to serious life issues, especially drugs.
In an episode ofĀ Voices for Humanity on the Scientology Network, DeLeon describes how he was searching the internet for materials that would really get across to kids. He found the Truth About Drugs initiative of Foundation for a Drug-Free World, and realized āthis is it!ā These materials were exactly what he needed. Whatās more, the Foundationās materials were absolutely free.
Foundation for a Drug-Free World makes itsĀ materials available free of chargeĀ to anyone wishing to use them to educate others on the truth about drugs,Ā thanks to the support of the Church of Scientology and Scientologists.
āNo matter how you look at it, fentanyl is deadly,ā says Jessica Hochman, Executive Director of Foundation for a Drug-Free World. āThe worst thing about fentanyl is that dealers are mixing it in other drugs, so buyers donāt even know what they are getting until itās too late.ā
āThe only solution is to educate youth, so they donāt start taking drugs in the first place. Itās not how toĀ safelyĀ take drugs. It is how to empower youth with confidence that they are doing the right thing in not taking drugsĀ period.ā
Foundation for a Drug-Free World is a Los Angeles-based nonprofit public benefit corporation that empowers youth and adults with factual information about drugs so they can make informed decisions and live drug-free.
āWe are increasing our efforts,ā says Hochman.Ā āAnd we ask that others help us in our mission to teach the truth about drugs.ā
Watch Michael DeLeonās episode ofĀ Voices for HumanityĀ onĀ theĀ Scientology Network.
The Scientology Network is available on DIRECTV Channel 320 and can be streamed atĀ Scientology.tv, onĀ mobile appsĀ and via the Roku, Amazon Fire and Apple TV platforms. Since launching with a special episode featuring Scientology ecclesiastical leaderĀ Mr. David Miscavige, Scientology Network has been viewed in 240 countries and territories worldwide in 17 languages.
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