Political Quotes

“Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent to include in the Record an article dated October 28, 2022, in Fortune magazine by the Associated Press entitled, ``Fentanyl and related drugs are killing more people than guns and cars combined. Many victims don't realize they're even taking it.'' The SPEAKER pro tempore. Is there objection to the request of the gentlewoman from Indiana? There was no objection. [From the Associated Press, Oct. 28, 2022] Fentanyl and Related Drugs Are Killing More People Than Guns and Cars Combined. Many Victims Don't Realize They're Even Taking It (By Geoff Mulvihill) Lillianna Alfaro was a recent high school graduate raising a toddler and considering joining the Army when she and a friend bought what they thought was the anti-anxiety drug Xanax in December 2020. The pills were fake and contained fentanyl, an opioid that can be 50 times as powerful as the same amount of heroin. It killed them both. ``Two years ago, I knew nothing about this,'' said Holly Groelle, the mother of 19-year-old Alfaro, who lived in Appleton, Wisconsin. ``I felt bad because it was something I could not have warned her about, because I didn't know.'' The drug that killed her daughter was rare a decade ago, but fentanyl and other lab-produced synthetic opioids now are driving an overdose crisis deadlier than any the U.S. has ever seen.…”