One Thing: Inside a Fentanyl State of Emergency
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🗓️ 3 March 2024
⏱️ 17 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | On Thursday, former President Donald Trump and current President Joe Biden both went to the |
| 0:09.2 | U.S. southern border. Now, they were 300-ish miles apart Texas is really, really big, but it just goes to show how big a role immigration will play for both parties in this year's election. |
| 0:22.0 | And something Biden and Trump both agree is a big problem |
| 0:26.0 | are the drugs flowing over the border, |
| 0:28.0 | specifically fentanyl. |
| 0:30.0 | Now, stopping the cartels and traffickers that bring fentanyl over the border is a tall task. |
| 0:36.0 | Then there's the question of how to deal with the fentanyl that's already here. |
| 0:40.0 | Overdose deaths remain near record highs. |
| 0:43.0 | So how do you stop something that has so many people already hooked? |
| 0:47.0 | My guest this week is CNN's Josh Campbell. He recently went to Portland, Oregon to see what one city's fight against fentanyl looks like up close. |
| 1:00.0 | From CNN, this is one thing. |
| 1:03.0 | I'm David Ryan. |
| 1:04.0 | Josh, tell me about Zach Dittier. |
| 1:11.0 | Well, this case was really every parent's worst nightmare. |
| 1:14.2 | Zach Didier was 17 years old. |
| 1:16.4 | He was a thriving high school kid, an accomplished student, an actor at the school theater, |
| 1:21.5 | an athlete, a musician. |
| 1:23.2 | And in 2020, his father, Chris, went into Zach's bedroom |
| 1:26.6 | in their home near Sacramento. |
| 1:28.6 | This is never an easy topic to talk about. |
| 1:32.1 | It always hurts. And Zach was slumped over his desk, |
| 1:36.2 | unresponsive. And as I approached him, he wasn't alive. I could feel before I even touched him that something was horribly wrong. |
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