FOX News Rundown EXTRA: When America's Drug Crisis Hits Home

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 11 December 2021

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

Over about the first year of the Coronavirus pandemic, from last April to this April, more than a 100,000 Americans died of a drug overdose, according to Centers For Disease Control. That is up nearly 29% from just the year before. State and local governments are making efforts to curb those deaths, including New York City's recent opening of overdose prevention centers, but some addiction advocates say not enough is being done. On The FOX News Rundown earlier this week, host Chris Foster spoke to Brittany Adams-Kelly, whose brother Matt died in 2017 from an overdose. Brittany Adams-Kelly discussed her brother's story, what the families of addicts can learn from it and what can be done to address America's growing overdose crisis. The original interview was too long and we couldn't include all of it in our segment. On The FOX News Rundown EXTRA, you will hear our entire conversation with Brittany Adams-Kelly and hear more of her incredible story and why the foundation she co-founded is so focused on harm reduction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:15.0	This is the Fox News rundown Extra.
0:17.0	I'm Chris Foster.
0:21.0	Today you'll hear from someone who lost her brother to a heroin overdose and is trying to stop that from happening to other drug users and their families. More Americans than ever before dying of a drug overdose over a hundred thousand from last April to this April according to the Centers for Disease Control,
0:34.0	and the numbers since then aren't in yet. About three and four of those deaths have been from opioids,
0:38.5	like the powerful synthetic fentanyl. Even old-fashioned heroin and other drugs are often mixed with that now it's cheaper
0:44.0	and dealers can stretch out their supply that way.
0:46.0	Matt Adams overdosed in 2017.
0:48.0	Brittany Adams Kelly is one of his sisters and co-founder of a foundation in his name
0:52.0	focused on drug recovery and harm reduction.
0:54.4	We talked about her brother, the foundation, and removing the stigma of drug addiction and the need to ask for help,
0:59.1	long-term getting clean, and short-term staying alive.
1:02.4	The conversation was just too long to use all of it in the regular
1:04.7	podcast but we think it's worth listening to the whole thing. Thank you for listening.
1:08.6	Now Brittany Adams Kelly on the Fox News rundown extra. News Run Down Extra. So we'll just start so we can get going here.
1:18.0	Brittany Adams Kelly, co-founder of Matt Adams Foundation on the Fox News
1:21.5	Rundown today.
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