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A MOTHER’S TRAGIC LOSS OF TWO SONS TO OPIOID OVERDOSESINSPIRES RALLYING CRY TO PARENTS · Go News To Go: More Good News

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  Okay, Hi, we're going to talk about a serious issue and a mother's
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  tragic loss to two sons, the opiate overdoses. You have a rallying cry
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  for parents, and we're here with doctor Bonnie Milis. Hi, doctor,
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  how are you great? Thanks for having me on. Well, this is
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  a very serious story, and actually I believe if I'm reading this right,
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  it's your story. Tell which makes it more serious by far for yourself.
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  But you're very brave and honorable and respectful to the world out there, so
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  this story doesn't become somebody else's story. So tell us about this, please.
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  Yes. So, I've tragically lost both of my adult sons to accidental
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  opioid poisonings, both of them involved fentanel, and I would like for every
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  parent not to experience that same tragic loss that I have experienced. And you
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  know, quite honestly, we have not been able to stop the flow of
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  fentannel into the United States, and therefore we as parents and as concerned citizens,
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  we need to have really kind of a boots on the ground approach and
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  put the medication in the hands of those who need it and basic knowledge,
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  basic skills. It's not hard, and you know, it's really a matter
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  of making available those life saving techniques and medication so that nobody suffers that loss.
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  You know, I've been on a campaign to get this medication a lock
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  zone into every first aid kit in the United States, also next to every
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  aed in the country. I'm still working on that one. But in the
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  meantime, we have people who are heading back to school. Our students are
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  children. I'd like to see it in their backpacks in their dorm rooms so
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  that they can be available to respond to an opioid poisoning in their environment.
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  Okay, So I'll be frank with you. I don't know much about fentanyl.
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  I don't know much about how oil does get into the hands of a
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  young person or an older person. Maybe you can help me and maybe help
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  the audience who knows only what they're seeing on television. Fetanyl can kill somebody,
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  and so I don't even know if fenton oil is so, well,
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  maybe you can help us here, right. So, fentanyl is a very
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  powerful opioid. It is really about fifty to one hundred times more powerful than
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  heroin and fentanyl. You would think that, well, how would somebody get
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  their hands on it. It's currently found in pressed tablets. So it might
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  be a student who's offered something at a party. They're exposed to a drug
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  that they've never seen before, so it's nearly instantaneous unconsciousness, their breathing stops,
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  and they can die of a drug overdose other places where you know,
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  people think that you have to go to the inner city to get fentanel.
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  Well you really don't. This I already mentioned this could come from a friend
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  in the form of a tablet. But fentanel is a very powerful opioid.
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  The way that it works it in fact, there are opioid receptors in the
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  brain, and the opioid comes into the brain, it occupies those receptors,
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  those little landing zones, and that's what allows the individual to fall unconscious,
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  bathing slows, and eventually their breathing will stop. And those are critical minutes
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  where if you find them down unconscious, that any individual can respond before their
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  heart slows and stops. And that's really the importance of having on the lock
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  zone product on hand. The lock zone is the reversal agent. It is
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  the antidote to an opioid poisoning. Okay, I need to go back a
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  little more to figure out how a tablet tablet only tablet is it? Then?
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  So who gets who's actually taking this legally? Is there somebody taking this
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  stuff legally? Yes, it's a yes. There are individuals who have chronic
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  pain syndromes, so therefore they have that medication prescribed to them in the form
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  of either a skin patch or there are other opioids as well, but fentanyl.
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  We do have fentanyl patches, and in fact those fentanyl patches, people
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  have used those to extract the medication from that patch and either inject it.
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  We've also had children, if you can imagine children who have eaten the patches,
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  so that's how they could be exposed to fentanel. So these are tablets
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  that are laced with sentanyl illicitly. So but again there are people. There
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  are people who are prescribed fentanyl. So then is that just start with the
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  people if you don't mind that it's very serious. Sure, people that have
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  been prescribed that, you know, they have a medicine cabinet. They have
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  a medicine cabinet that says xyz. I don't know if it says fentanyl on
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  it. And then there's some I guess young child take some from that medicine
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  cabinet because they heard that that's a great What is it? Is it you
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  get high? What happens to you? What? What is it? What
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  is the allure to vetanol? Well, I don't think it's necessarissarily the allure
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  to the fentanyl. It's really more of they're exposed inadvertently to something that they
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  would not expect, So they're not taking it to get high. It might
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  be that they think that they are taking adderall you know, a friend offers
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  them a tablet. They may think that it is xanax, something that will
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  calm their nerves. So oftentimes it might be a young person that's not looking
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  for fentanyl. They just happen to be exposed to it accidentally. This is
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  a though. If I read this and I'd like to get to your story,
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  I help you don't mind because anybody I want to know it's okay,
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  okay, good, because because all I know is that this is a crisis,
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  and you see it on the papers, and you see it around and
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  you hear about things like that. So I mean, how how much is
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  it around? And are people paying a lot of money in the black market?
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  This isn't sold in these weed stores. Is it? This is not
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  what's I have know it. This is wild for me. That's why I
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  wanted to talk to you. I feel so bad for you personally. I
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  mean, and you're a doctor anymore. Yeah, Now your question is about
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  how somebody comes and becomes exposed to it or who's how they getting all this?
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  I mean, who's as you said something to other other meds other things.
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  But you know, people just don't take pills. I mean, does
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  somebody say to you, hey, here's some patooil, you're going to have
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  a good I mean it was LSD, it was drugs that people would take.
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  They would get into another level of mindset, right right, Well,
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  I would say the two major ways that people would be exposed to fentanel would
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  be accidentally. That would probably be especially true with our youngest people. The
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  youngest group we're talking about ages ten to nineteen. That the overdose death rate
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  is up one hundred and ten percent. And again I did say age ten,
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  So where are they getting it from? And first of all, it
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  is over eighty percent of those overdose deaths are due to fentanyl. It is
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  from a quarter of the time, it is from illicit tablets, and I
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  already mentioned it could be from a friend. Otherwise, there are individuals who
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  are experimenting with drugs and they may be you know, seeking it out.
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  And it's not necessarily just in the inner city. There are sites where the
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  dark web you could also obtain the medication. It can be crushed, it
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  can be snorted, it can be injected. So fentanyl is out there.
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  It is cheap in the illicit drug supply. It's being added so that they
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  can cut their costs, the drug dealers. Anything can be laced with fentanyl.
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  People have smoked weed and it's been you know, sprinkled on a weed
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  cigarette. So there's plenty of exposures. Opioid poisonings in the United States.
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  That is the highest cause of accidental death in the United States. It's the
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  biggest cause. And it's affecting our children, even some of our youngest children.
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  I hear you, says Grandpa Paul. So okay, you know that's
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  why I'm trying to dig down here, so I can be telling my grandkids
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  what I've learned. Right, Well, I don't know anybody. You know,
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  you're saying a friend could get does A friend of course, gives it
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  to you. Without knowing. Did the friend try it? I mean correctly,
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  right, he tried it themselves? Well be dying? I mean I'm
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  just knocked out this one for me. Yeah. So here here's the thing.
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  Yeah, say, for instance, a high school friend has a bag
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  full of pills. Well, you don't know. One of those pills may
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  have fentanyl in it, the other may not. So this kid may be
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  at a party, they take it, nothing happens to them, But there
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  might be one of those tablets in there that does have it laced with fentanyl,
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  and that individual, the victim, collapses on the scene. People think
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  that he's been having too many beers, and nobody checks on him. But
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  the signs that people should look for for an open opioid poisoning is they are
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  unconscious. You cannot wake them up. Their breathing is slowed and it may
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  even stop. If you look at them, their lips are blue, their
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  fingertips are blue, and if you look at their eyes, their pupils are
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  pinpoint. They are as small of a head of a straight pin. So
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  what the ready to Rescue dot com campaign is all about is about lay,
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  spray, and stay to remember those three things you want to lay the victim
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  down, tilt their head up, spray the the lock zone into one of
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  their nostrils, and to stay with them until trained help arrives. Now,
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  the lock zone, if there's no opioid present and you've misjudged this circumstance,
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  it's not going to harm the victim. So by all means, especially if
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  it's a young person who suddenly falls unconscious, you can make an assumption and
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  it's safe to do so, to give the lock zone now. I will
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  tell you also that the other name, the brand name for the lockzone currently
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  available over the counter is Narcan Nasal Spray. It is immediately available and I'm
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  partnering with Emergent BioSolutions. This is a very important educational initiative. Anybody,
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  any one of your listeners can go to Ready to Rescue dot com and they
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  will learn what to do, how to respond. Even a grandpa like yourself
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  can respond to an opioid overdose. In fact, I'll show you right here.
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  This is it. This is the product. It's a nasal spray.
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  It's super easy. Look, all you have to do is peel off the
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  foil. You put your fingers on either side of this nozzle. Here,
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  you push this pink button one time. That's it. It's a nasal spray.
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  It's easy. You can do it. Yeah. Sure. I want
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  to ask you one last question about the SURE and I plaud you implaud the
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  company you're working with for coming out and spending that R and D money to
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  help to save lives, which is what it takes to come up with a
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  product, and the whole marketing whole. That's very I'm a big farmer guy
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  appreciative of pharma and because it's has saved millions of lives. Every once in
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  a while something doesn't work, that's you know, But the bigger pictures saves
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  lives pharma. Who is making this junk? Who is who is who is
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  the hustler here? Who's the whoere is this coming from? And who?
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  I'm sorry? But who is making it? And how is it getting here?
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  And how is it being and is this a worldwide thing or is it
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  just America? Well, what I can tell you about what's happening in America,
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  and this is from my discussions with FDA agents. The raw materials come
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  in from China, they are processed primarily in Mexico. And whether it is
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  coming across the border or whether it is coming through I already mentioned the dark
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  web that material comes into the United States, whether it's in press, tablets,
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  whether it's a powder. That's primarily how it gets here. And this
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  is from my knowledge of talking to FDA agents. We got to talk to
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  the FBI agents and the CIA agents. Another round of people keeping it the
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  best they can out of here. Okay, well you're very good. Well
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  I'm going ahead. Please no. As I already mentioned, if we can't
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  stop the tide of fentannel, then we as citizens, we need to take
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  up the charge. We need to put the power in the hands of individuals,
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  parents, friends. So I like to refer this as the Friends and
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  Family program. And you can go to Amazon dot com. It's a click
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  away. It is that easy to pick up narcan, which again the other
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  name for it is the Locke Zone. You can walk into any pharmacy,
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  you can pick it up on the shelf. Okay, and I appreci Yeah,
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  schools, I were a wonder Rama shirt because I know they speak about
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  things like this on this young person's television show that's been around for many years.
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  But education and wisdom hopefully is spreading and your helping spread it through your
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  own personal This is a big thing for you, so I wish you the
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  best and absolutely and we're here if we can help you anymore with what you're
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  doing. Thank you for having me on. Okay, thank you doctor.
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  Bye bye Byetta sat at the batt