And it’s slaughtered over a quarter of a million Americans since 2018.
Imagine the population of Cincinnati, Ohio—every man, woman and child—wiped out, and you’ll have an idea of the toll taken by a killer barely the size of a few grains of sand in its pure form, yet 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.
Imagine finding your child standing upright but bent over, her head on the couch arm buried in vomit, her eyes open and vacant, dead, as one mother did.
Imagine being technically dead, flatlined and coming to on the living room floor to see your family staring at you, their faces contorted in horror and anguish, as one user did.
It’s the drug fentanyl. Intended to give relief from the severe pain that accompanies advanced cancer, major surgery or end-of-life agony, it has become a Frankenstein’s monster, unleashing death on young and old, rich and poor alike.
With the plague spreading to 13 European countries, the epidemic threatens to become a holocaust.
Illicit fentanyl poisonings are now the number-one cause of overdose deaths among adults.
Two out of every three drug overdose deaths in the US were caused by fentanyl.
Seventy-nine percent of opioid-related Canadian deaths in the first half of 2024 involved fentanyl or a fentanyl-like substance.
Prescription fentanyl was misused by 539,000 individuals aged 12 or older in one year.
Fentanyl-related ER visits were highest among individuals ages 26 to 44.
A new legal option—law offices that handle divorce due to opioid addiction—is now part of the culture.
And with the plague spreading to 13 European countries, the epidemic threatens to become a holocaust.
The Foundation for a Drug-Free World, the largest non-governmental anti-drug information and prevention campaign on Earth, sponsored by the Church of Scientology and spearheaded by Scientology ecclesiastical leader David Miscavige, has taken on the challenge of the fentanyl scourge through its highly popular and effective Truth About Drugs program.
With the release of a new booklet, The Truth About Fentanyl, the program adds to its enlightening arsenal of fact-filled booklets—each of which, without hype or scare tactics, provides essential information on a commonly abused drug, empowering readers to make their own decision to live drug-free.
The pages reveal with clarity how fentanyl is abused, why it’s dangerous, its various street names—ranging from Apache to TNT to Drop Dead—how it kills, what symptoms of overdose to look for, its short and long-term effects and much more. In a 10- to 15-minute read, one is armed with the know-how to make an informed decision about the drug, and to pass that knowledge on.
The Truth About Fentanyl will join the 14 other Truth About Drugs booklets, 160 million of which have been distributed in 17 languages across 188 countries—each covering a different deadly drug.
With enough Truth About Fentanyl booklets downloaded or distributed, with enough people enlightened, the monster can be brought under control.
Knowledge is power, after all.
It’s too late for Petty, Prince and Coolio. But it’s not too late for you, me, our loved ones or the untold billions we’ll never know, but who are nonetheless our brothers and sisters—strangers become family against the towering threat of fentanyl.
