and welcome back to our cnn town hall about this country s fentanyl crisis. we could not end this evening without talking to the people on the front lines of this battle against fentanyl. i m joined now by dr. ayanna jordan, associate professor of psychiatry at nyu, and lou or ten zero, a former doctor who is in recovery after becoming addicted himself after prescribing painkillers to patients. he helps others now with their recoveries, as the executive director of the clarksburg mission in west virginia. thank you both so much for being with us. you actually brought narcan with you. i did, i did. so, show, i think it s important for people to see it. i haven t actually seen it up closely. thank you for that opportunity. before i get started, i really just want to express my sincere empathy for the people that are here today. it s not easy, it s more to say, i am beyond sorry for your loss. but i am committed to doing things is a friendly, okay. my role as a phy
addicted himself while prescribing painkillers to patients. he helps others now with their recoveries, as the executive director of the clarksburg mission in west virginia. thank you both so much for being with us. you actually brought narcan with you. i did, i did. so, show, i think it s important for people to see it. i haven t actually seen it up closely. thank you for that opportunity. before i get started, i really just want to express my sincere empathy for the people that are here today. it s not easy, it s more to say, i am beyond sorry for your loss. but i am committed to doing things differently, okay. my role as a physician is to save lives, all right. i don t want to blow people up. i want to stop this from ever happening again, right. all right. so, thank you for that. [applause] and just as a physician, this is emotional for you. because you see this up close. i see this up close all the time. and i feel like we are not concentrating on the science
Across Indiana, numerous groups support people living in recovery from addiction. They provide services like peer support groups and educational resources.
Many also provide harm reduction services things like fentanyl strips to identify the presence of the deadly substance, and naloxone, a lifesaving medication that reverses overdoses.
is od ing you can use it. and what it does is it blocks the effects of fentanyl and other opioids. i m glad to open it up, so you can people can see. there s nothing magic about it. i m not going to give it to myself. but i just want to show you. it is a intranasal. you put it up in the nostril. and then you push and it delivers a spray. and that simple action can save lives. i just talked to mike fanone, a police officers who responded on january 6th, he told me that years ago on a drug bust he was on, i canine got some fentanyl. and he actually did that to a canine and it worked. he said he was not sure this would work, and he did it, and it works. it s incredible what it can do. it s incredible what he can do. so, what i mean is we have to have all hands on board. and support programs that get naloxone out everywhere. i want to bring in sarah lebowitz. she s an elementary school whose daughter died two years ago at the age of 22 of an
a nasal spray that if somebody is od ing you can use it. and what it does is it blocks the effects of fentanyl and other opioids. i m glad to open it up, so you people can see. there s nothing magic about it. i m not going to give it to myself. but i just want to show you. it is a intranasal. you put it up in the nostril. and then you push and it delivers a spray. and that simple action can save lives. i just talked to mike fanone, a police officers who responded on january 6th, he told me that years ago on a drug bust he was on, a canine got some fentanyl. and he actually did that to a canine and it worked. he said he was not sure this would work, and he did it, and it works. it s incredible what it can do. it s incredible what it can do. so, what i mean is we have to have all hands on board. and support programs that get naloxone out everywhere. i want to bring in sarah lebowits. she s an elementary school