Voices for Awareness, a Grand Junction-based nonprofit, focuses on tackling the issue in the community. It is sharing more on why the community needs to respond to what organizers describe as a growing problem of fentanyl use. The Grand Junction Police Department has outlined the steps it is taking to address the issue.

Voices For Awareness attended the Rally at the Chinese Embassy in Washington D.C. in August 2021. Fentanyl is flooding into our Country and it is being made in China and solicited to the United States by the Mexican Cartels. We are losing our loved ones at an alarming rate. Fentanyl is a Drug of Mass Destruction!

by: Austin Sack www.westernslopenow.com GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (KFQX) — The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment data shows the number of fentanyl-related deaths in our state nearly doubled in 2021, “We can’t sit back and take any chances that people aren’t aware,” Janet Rowland, Mesa County Commissioner says.

The Voices for Awareness Foundation is partnering with local organizations to raise awareness about the dangers of fentanyl and prevent the drug from becoming more prevalent in the community. “As fentanyl deaths continue to rise in Colorado our community partners recognize the growing need and concern to address fentanyl dangers and the impact of fentanyl in Mesa County,” a Voices for Awareness press release stated.