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 Rauh in 2018 to spread awareness of the deadly opioid that took the life of his 37-year-old son Thomas.
According to the organization’s website, its goal is to persuade the federal government to “have illicitly manufactured fentanyl declared a weapon of mass destruction.”
“Deaths are soaring in California and across the US and our young people are at risk. It’s time to treat this threat with the urgency it deserves,” Rauh said in a March 30 statement. “We are calling for the Biden Administration to declare illicit fentanyl, and its analogs, a weapon of mass destruction and immediately establish a White House task force dedicated to the fentanyl crisis.”…