News Brief: Fentanyl In Our Halloween Candy and Liberal Messaging Failures of the Overdose Crisis

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🗓️ 28 October 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

In this Halloween themed News Brief, we debunk the idea drug dealers are handing out fentanyl candy to our children. But we also examine why these copaganda panics are able to take hold: namely the failure of liberals to provide an alternative, non-carceral vision for how to handle the very real and urgent overdose crisis.

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0:00.0	Welcome to A Citation's Needed News Brief.
0:06.4	I am Neema Shirazi.
0:07.4	I'm Adam Johnson.
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0:22.4	We do these news briefs in between our regularly scheduled full-like episodes.
0:26.8	Oh, I don't know, Adam.
0:29.0	Drug dealers from Mexico are putting drugs in our kids' skittles.
0:33.8	And China, don't forget China.
0:34.8	Oh right, it's also the Chinese.
0:36.8	China.
0:37.8	The Chinese, the Mexican cartels.
0:39.4	Yes, the cartels are out to get our kids.
0:43.8	And what is happening, we hear from our politicians and the press, is that we now have
0:50.2	to look out for brightly colored fentanyl pills that are going to be snuck into our kids'
0:55.8	Halloween candy for what purpose I don't know, getting them addicted and then murdering
0:59.8	them.
1:00.8	Federal authorities want you to be aware of so-called rainbow fentanyl pills.
1:05.2	The DEA warns the drug targets children because it looks like candy.
1:09.4	This is a picture of real fentanyl.
1:11.7	These are sweet tarts.
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