It’s true! It’s now on network news.

Some who have been reading my posts, know this is old news, which I guess is an oxymoron. I have been writing on it for at least 9 years. Drug abuse in general is what got me into writing books. That was back in the early1990s.

However, back in the days before Trump announced his first run for president, the fentanyl really started coming on, about 90 thousand a year, mostly youth, deaths.

As near as I can tell, not many paid attention to me. Yet, everyone started demonstrating over the war in Vietnam, with the total loss of around 60 thousand lost there… In what, 4 or 5 years. Moreover, the death in Vietnam did have a purpose. Deaths by drugs are double tragic as they are pointless.

Trump made a gallant effort to decrease deaths by fentanyl and had some success. If memory serves me correctly, he got it down to about 30 thousand a year. It was still far too many, but at least it was going in the right direction.

Then Old Joe got in there. The deaths went right back up to 90 thousand. Now, last report, 125 thousand. I guess that’s what it takes to make network news…for a while. After a week or two, it will be back to just a few folks like me, and the parents complaining. Don’t expect the network news to stay after it.

After all, after just a week, it’s no longer news.

It would behoove us all to remember, just because they aren’t being reported, doesn’t mean people aren’t still dying from it.