Every state that won't treat a fentanyl death as a homicide is a state where dealers kill with legal impunity. It’s time to close that gap.
We jail a bartender who overserves a customer who then kills someone on the road. We should jail a dealer who knowingly hands a lethal dose to someone's child.
Fentanyl kills faster than almost any other substance in modern history. A pill crushed into a line. A capsule slipped into a night out. Someone's son. Someone's daughter.
The people who supply these doses know exactly what they're moving. And in too many states, when a young person dies from that dose, the dealer faces a drug charge — not a homicide charge.
MAPDA is an organization of fighting mom determined to make civic, business, and government leaders confront the gravity of this crisis.
MAPDA is built around mothers who have lost children to drugs, joined by the advocates and experts who have spent years working to hold dealers, drug companies and other bad actors accountable. Our members have helped pass laws, shape prosecutions, and will put fentanyl homicide on the national agenda.
“MAPDA identified the opioid crisis before it fully unfolded and refused to stay silent. They challenged pharmaceutical companies profiting from our children’s lives—and today, they continue to lead with courage in the battles still to come.”
“Long before the opioid crisis reached its peak, MAPDA recognized the danger and chose to act. Confronting pharmaceutical companies that profited from human loss, they have become a trusted leader in the critical fights that lie ahead.”
“Mothers for Awareness and Prevention of Drug Abuse is working to close the gap between tragedy and justice by advancing policies that hold fentanyl dealers accountable when their actions take a life. Accountability is not about punishment alone, it is about recognizing the value of every life lost and making it clear that selling this poison has real consequences.”
And every mother in America who loses a child to a poisoned pill knows exactly where to turn to make the dealer pay.
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