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Ed Ternan, Song for Charlie's Founder On His Unrelenting Work to Warn About Fake Pills
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When Ed and Mary Ternan finally met the police officer who had been on scene at their son's overdose death, he had an off-the-record theory: "This is not official, and you'll have to wait for toxicology to come back, but this is going to be fentanyl," the officer told them.
News about the synthetic opioid is inescapable today, but in 2020, the couple had never heard of it. Charlie was a popular, successful student with no substance use issues. How could this have happened?
As it turned out, Charlie was Santa Clara County's seventh fentanyl death in only 10 days. Suffering…
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