08/21/2025
👉 MCDAO is unwavering in our mission — to prosecute all who profit from or spread this deadly poison in our community, and to support prevention, education, and awareness efforts that save lives.
💡 Did you know?
Illicit fentanyl is now the leading cause of overdose deaths in the United States — claiming thousands of lives each year, including right here in Montgomery County.
⚠️ Every 5 minutes, someone dies of fentanyl poisoning.
⚠️ Just 2 milligrams — about the size of a few grains of salt — can be lethal.
⚠️ One pill can kill.
Illicit fentanyl — 100x more potent than morphine and 50x stronger than he**in — is manufactured by cartels and trafficked into our country. It is sold alone, secretly mixed into other street drugs, or pressed into counterfeit pills made to look like legitimate prescriptions. Its extreme potency makes these drugs more addictive, more dangerous, and far too often, instantly deadly.
Today, on National Fentanyl Prevention & Awareness Day, we join families, law enforcement, and communities across the nation to honor the lives lost and raise awareness of this devastating epidemic.
💙 Together, we can fight back against fentanyl.
