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Parents whose children have died from fentanyl want to make sure other kids, and adults, think before they take any kind of pill. Fentanyl is up to 50 times more potent than heroin and it’s often pressed into fake pills made to look like prescription drugs. In the U.S., overdose deaths are at an all-time high and experts say much of that is being driven by counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl.
Tami Gottsegen’s son Braden Burks died two years ago. She lives in Centennial south of Denver. Alden and Susan Globe, of Steamboat Springs, lost their daughter Madeline in 2017 and Andrea Thomas, of Grand Junction, lost her daughter Ashley Romero in 2018.
NEW YORK, NEW YORK - AUGUST 31: Shaun Willis, with the Brooklyn Community Recovery Center, demonstrates how to use Narcan to revive a person in the case of a drug overdose on August 31, 2022 in New York City. Nearly one million people have died of drug overdose deaths in America in the past two decades, with an increasing majority of those deaths due to synthetic opioids like fentanyl. To mark International Overdose Awareness Day, the Brooklyn Community Recovery Center handed out packs of Narcan nasal spray before holding a brief vigil for lives lost due to drug overdoses. (Photo by Spencer Platt/Getty Images)