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This is important, and whoever runs for the GOP should make this a campaign promise if it isn't enacted before then.
Just as AIDS and crack had a large focus, much more needs to be done about this issue. You ca only improve through facts.
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Families Against Fentanyl, an organization raising awareness about the dangers of the deadly synthetic opioid, are asking the Biden administration to count fentanyl poisoning and overdose deaths the same way it counted COVID-19 deaths.
The organization, which is in regular communication with hundreds of individuals impacted by the opioid crisis, sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky on May 10, which the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) designated as National Fentanyl Awareness Day for the first time this year.
The letter calls on Becerra and Walensky to "publish usable provisional fentanyl fatality data within six weeks of death," noting that a current six-month lag prevents experts "from anticipating coming trends, and from responding appropriately to the existing situation."
Just as AIDS and crack had a large focus, much more needs to be done about this issue. You ca only improve through facts.
Fentanyl awareness group asks Biden admin to track poisoning, overdose deaths like COVID-19 deaths
Families Against Fentanyl, an organization raising awareness about the dangers of the deadly synthetic opioid, are asking the Biden administration to count fentanyl poisoning and overdose deaths the same way it counted COVID-19 deaths.
www.foxnews.com
Families Against Fentanyl, an organization raising awareness about the dangers of the deadly synthetic opioid, are asking the Biden administration to count fentanyl poisoning and overdose deaths the same way it counted COVID-19 deaths.
The organization, which is in regular communication with hundreds of individuals impacted by the opioid crisis, sent a letter to Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Xavier Becerra and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Director Dr. Rochelle P. Walensky on May 10, which the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) designated as National Fentanyl Awareness Day for the first time this year.
The letter calls on Becerra and Walensky to "publish usable provisional fentanyl fatality data within six weeks of death," noting that a current six-month lag prevents experts "from anticipating coming trends, and from responding appropriately to the existing situation."
