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Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - Inside the Washington D.C. Rally: Taking on the fentanyl crisis

Inside the Washington D.C. Rally: Taking on the fentanyl crisis

Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic

10/18/23 • 25 min

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Over the past couple of months, Grieving Out Loud host Angela Kennecke had the opportunity to make two trips to Washington, D.C., to shine a spotlight on America's growing drug crisis, which is killing a record number of Americans. During her first visit, Angela had the privilege of meeting with some of our country's top leaders, including the U.S. drug czar, the director of the CDC, and Second Gentleman Douglas Emhoff, who is married to Vice President Kamala Harris.
On her second visit to the nation's capital, Angela joined hundreds of others who have felt the profound pain of losing loved ones to illicit substances. The rally aimed to deliver a powerful message to policymakers and the public: it's high time to take decisive action against the scourge of fentanyl trafficking and its heartbreaking toll.
Today, Angela shares the stories of three remarkable individuals she met during the rally. Tune in to hear their passionate calls for change in our country and the urgent message they're sending to all of us.

Please also check out Angela's nonprofit, Emily's Hope, dedicated to destigmatizing substance use disorder through awareness, education, prevention, and removing financial barriers to treatment and recovery.

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Podcast producers:
Casey Wonnenberg & Kayli Fitz

10/18/23 • 25 min

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Grieving Out Loud: A Mother Coping with Loss in the Opioid Epidemic - Inside the Washington D.C. Rally: Taking on the fentanyl crisis

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[00:00:00] Sharon Roberts: I never heard of fentanyl until his autopsy came back. it was just something that does not happen to you.

This is not something that happens to you. And we were just like, what, how, why did he die? So that's why we did the autopsy. I wanted to make sure he didn't have a brain tumor or a cancer or something. So when it came back that that's what it was. That's when I started getting on the internet, looking up something, found all these groups

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