Tucson mom Theresa Guerrero lost her son Jacob to fentanyl in May 2020. As of March 16th, the Arizona Department of Health Services reports there have been 47 opioid deaths in Arizona in 2023. MORE ⬇️
"We as parents don't call it an overdose. We call it drug-induced homicide,"Guerrero said."We want to go after the dealers, they're killing people."
"This bill is not targeting the fentanyl pill given to one person from the next. What it is targeting is enterprises that are committing murder on our streets," Senator Kern , Glendale District-27 said on the Senate floor. If the current trend holds up for the entire year, it will make a dramatic decline in the number of people in Arizona who die from opioid overdoses.
Coles is the executive director of Sonoran Prevention Works, a Phoenix-based organization that works to help people who are suffering from addiction in several states across the country.
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