Almost everyone in this room has likely lost someone to addiction, a harsh reality we need to face.
I've attended more funerals than I can bear to recount, and the pain is overwhelming.
These aren't just statistics; these are people I loved deeply, friends, uncles, cousinsgood people.
Some were just managing pain after an accident and got caught in a downward spiral.
How do we address this growing crisis in our communities?
At a Senate Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Committee hearing, artist and philanthropist Jason Jelly Roll DeFord delivered powerful testimony supporting the bipartisan Fentanyl Eradication and Narcotics Deterrence (FEND) Off Fentanyl Act.