About 400 people joined the Lost Voices of Fentanyl rally, marching to the White House and demanding greater public understanding of the synthetic opioid.
Fifty banners stretched for about 400 feet, nearly spanning the width of the National Mall. They featured faces of nearly 3,500 people who lost their lives to fentanyl. Many were young, even teenagers. Some wore their high school jerseys or graduation caps. They smiled, forever frozen in time on the banners, which Babcock said represented the thousands of people who have died of opioid use.
The parents are calling for more attention to be devoted to a health crisis that has persisted in America for far longer than the coronavirus. In addition, the group is demanding the Biden administration classify fentanyl as a weapon of mass destruction and designate drug cartels as foreign terrorist organizations.
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