I was once that clueless guy in the kitchen, playing chemist with drugs, just like many dealers today mixing everything with fentanyl and causing untold harm.
Back then, I genuinely believed selling drugs was a victimless crime.
My father always said, What doesn't get you in the wash will get you in the rinse, and now I live with the harsh reality of those words.
I have a 15-year-old daughter whose mother is a drug addict, and every day I face the fear of her becoming another statistic.
History repeats itself, even from the crack cocaine days of the '90s.
How do we break this cycle?
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.
