Media Advisory: DEA Special Agent Calling Fentanyl a “Weapon of Mass Destruction”
Families Against Fentanyl Founder available to discuss recent statement by DEA Special Agent calling fentanyl a “Weapon of Mass Destruction.”
Yesterday, DEA Special Agent Chuvalo Truesdell sounded the alarm on illicit fentanyl in the United States, equating it to “a Weapon of Mass Destruction” in an interview with WXIA-NBC Atlanta:
Truesdell said it is increasingly important for people to have healthy conversations and to always educate yourself when it comes to drugs. He said these street drugs are equivalent to a “Weapon of Mass Destruction” and a lot of damage can be caused to families and communities.
Families Against Fentanyl is an Ohio-based nonprofit that is fighting to have illicit fentanyl formally designated a WMD. Doing so would unleash government resources and action thus far untapped amid the overdose crisis in America. A Families Against Fentanyl petition asking the federal government to designate fentanyl a Weapon of Mass Destruction has over 12,000 signatures and counting.
“Illicit fentanyl is being used by drug traffickers to poison thousands of unsuspecting Americans each year as they lace it into counterfeit pills and street drugs. What many people don’t realize is that fentanyl is also a chemical weapon that could be used by terrorists to cause a mass casualty event. And it is flooding into our country at an alarming rate,” said James Rauh, founder of Families Against Fentanyl. “Officially designating illicit fentanyl and its analogues as Weapons of Mass Destruction will allow the United States to employ greater federal resources to slow the flood of illegal fentanyl into the United States.”
WHO: James Rauh
Founder, Families Against Fentanyl
Mr. Rauh is available to discuss:
The remarks by DEA Special Agent Chuvalo Truesdell equating illicit fentanyl to a WMD
The unprecedented surge of illicit fentanyl being smuggled into the United States and its potential to be used in a mass-casualty event
The work of Families Against Fentanyl to have illicit fentanyl declared a Weapon of Mass Destruction by the federal government
The overdose crisis in the United States, fueled by illicit fentanyl
