Parents, students and law enforcement came together Monday evening to talk about the growing concern of teens overdosing on fentanyl.
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The Drug Education Council held a town hall meeting to engage the community in what is happening all around the country and in their own neighborhoods.Officials say they are doing everything they can to stop people from distributing this deadly drug and helping those dealing with addiction. They say that if these things aren’t discussed, they won’t be solved.
“When we do find those responsible for distributing drugs to young people, we go after them with everything we have, and for those who choose to sell it, I don’t care, they can die in prison,” said Mobile Sheriff Paul Burch. Mobile County District Attorney Keith Blackwood said, “We can’t arrest our way out the problem of addiction, out of the disease of addiction, so it is important I think, to have that treatment option, so hopefully those people get the treatment they need and they don’t make any victims.”
A Mary G. Montgomery High School teacher also weighed in on the discussion, saying he has been to more funerals for his students than graduations in the last five years all because of the fentanyl crisis.Mobile PD apprehends woman accused of shooting her parents on Avonlea Court1 arrested on marijuana trafficking charge in Baldwin County
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