The Lives Lost To The Fentanyl Crisis
The Untold Story with Martha MacCallum
FOX News Podcasts
4.6 • 775 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2022
⏱️ 15 minutes
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| 0:49.3 | And as we know, as we have reported in great detail, it is flooding the country now in record |
| 0:56.4 | numbers. So now parents and mothers who have lost their children to this heinous drug |
| 1:03.3 | want every parent and every family in America to know that there are fatal mistakes sitting out there for their kids. |
| 1:12.6 | April Babcock lost her 25-year-old son Austin three years ago. |
| 1:17.6 | Tanya Niedermann's 19-year-old son, JJ, died last year, and both of these mothers are brave enough to be here today with me to share their stories. |
| 1:28.3 | And ladies, I've enjoyed just chatting with you a little bit before we got started. |
| 1:33.3 | And I think you are so brave. |
| 1:34.3 | I can't imagine what you have gone through, the pain you've gone through. |
| 1:39.3 | So welcome and thank you for being here because I know you're here because you want to make sure this doesn't happen to other families. Let's just start, Tanya, by telling a little bit of your |
| 1:49.1 | story and a little bit of what happened to JJ so that other parents can hear your story. |
| 1:56.0 | So my son was 19 years old. He was going to college. He was working. I said this in |
| 2:04.5 | engagements that I've spoken before, that he was doing everything right. He took what he thought |
| 2:11.6 | was cocaine and it was fentanyl. And he died. Yeah. And what have, what has the past year been like for you and your |
| 2:21.2 | family? You have two daughters who came here with you today. Yes. It's, it's been rough. I mean, |
| 2:27.5 | I have to try to wake up every day and live without him. Part of my journey has been to spread the message that this can truly happen to anyone. |
| 2:39.9 | I mean, on February 11th of 2021, if you'd asked me if my son had ever tried drugs, I would |
| 2:46.5 | have told you know. |
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