April Babcock is a grieving mother on a mission—to save others from the pain she experienced on Jan. 26, 2019, when her son, Austen, took what he believed was cocaine. Unbeknownst to him, it was laced with a lethal dose of illicit fentanyl. He died shortly after. To raise awareness, Babcock started The Lost Voices…
DOJ Unveils Charges Against Sinaloa Cartel, Including El Chapo’s Sons, Over Fentanyl Trafficking
The Department of Justice announced charges against more than two dozen individuals of the Mexico-based Sinaloa Cartel for alleged illegal trafficking of fentanyl and other drugs. The charges, announced in an April 14 press conference, target 33 people, including “the Chapitos,” the sons of former Sinaloa Cartel leader Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman: Joaquin Guzman Lopez,…
US Sanctions Chinese Entities for Allegedly Providing Precursor Chemicals for Illicit Fentanyl Production
The Treasury Department announced on April 14 it is sanctioning two entities tied to China for allegedly “supplying precursor chemicals to drug cartels in Mexico for the production of illicit fentanyl intended for U.S. markets.” Wuhan Shuokang Biological Technology Co., Ltd. (WSBT) and Suzhou Xiaoli Pharmatech Co., Ltd. (SXPC) were sanctioned “for having engaged in,…
California Officials Warn of Fentanyl, Drug Dealing on Social Media
LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif.—“Look at those braces. Alex was the light of my life,” Amy Neville said while looking at an image of her son, Alexander. “The last time I saw him alive was about 9 p.m. in the evening. He was gone the following morning,” she said. In June 2020, 14-year-old Alexander was found by…
Treating California’s Fentanyl Crisis as an Epidemic
Commentary More than the rest of the country, California continues to suffer large numbers of fentanyl deaths. The Feb. 15 update on the California Overdose Surveillance Dashboard, run by the state government, shows the numbers for 2021, the last full year data are available. There were 7,175 deaths related to any opioid overdose, of which 5,961…
Federal Government Declares Fentanyl Laced With Xylazine an ‘Emerging Threat’
The White House has named the veterinary tranquilizer xylazine as an “emerging threat” when it’s mixed with the powerful opioid fentanyl, noting that the combination is increasingly being used and triggering overdoses. The decision to name the drug as such, announced Wednesday, is the first time in U.S. history that the federal government declared a…
Ohio ‘Families Against Fentanyl’ Launch Billboards in California, Seeking ‘Weapon of Mass Destruction’ Declaration
A nonprofit organization dedicated to tackling the opioid epidemic has initiated a billboard campaign along several Los Angeles and Orange County freeways that reads “Fentanyl is the number one cause of death for Americans 18 to 45.” Families Against Fentanyl—the nonpartisan nonprofit behind the billboards that first appeared March 30—was founded by Ohio resident Jim…
Ohio ‘Families Against Fentanyl’ Launch Billboards in California
A nonprofit organization dedicated to tackling the opioid epidemic initiated a billboard campaign along several Los Angeles and Orange County freeways that reads “Fentanyl is the number one cause of death for Americans 18 to 45.” Families Against Fentanyl—the nonpartisan nonprofit behind the billboards that appeared from March 30 to April 9 in Southern California—was…
Communist China’s Genocide Against America
Commentary Is communist China committing genocide against the United States? Mounting accusations and some evidence point to Beijing not only killing Americans with illicit fentanyl, but doing so intentionally. Intentionality is a key ingredient to the legal definition of genocide. The motive for the use of fentanyl, which 18 state attorneys general last year called…
Beijing Denies Ties to America’s Fentanyl Crisis
China is denying any role in America’s fentanyl crisis, despite its status as the world’s number one maker of the precursor chemical, which gets manufactured into the synthetic opioid by Mexican cartels. Beijing’s foreign ministry says no illegal fentanyl trafficking happens between China and Mexico, adding it’s a “made in USA” problem. But is that…
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