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<v 0>Thanks everyone. Sorry to be a couple minutes late</v>

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on a Monday in May, 2021,

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the parents of a 15 year old high school freshman found their son in his bedroom

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in Idaho.

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He wasn't breathing and despite starting CPR right away

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and calling for help,

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their son died of a fentanyl overdose.

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His death was caused by one pill that he purchased on

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Snapchat. DEA has seized an unprecedented amount of fentanyl

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more than 15,000 pounds this year alone.

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And that fentanyl is directly linked to the staggering amount of overdose

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deaths that we are seeing in our country.

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The amount of fentanyl that the DEA and our law enforcement partners have

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seized this year is enough to kill every single

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Amer can.

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What is equally troubling is that the cartels have harnessed the

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perfect drug delivery tool, social media,

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social media applications that are available on every single smartphone

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in the United States with a simple click,

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as easy as ordering a pizza online,

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Americans are buying what they think are real medicines.

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What they are getting is fake pills, laced with deadly fentanyl,

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fake pills that are killing Americans and leading to an untold number of

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overdoses.