It was a Friday afternoon in July 1995 and a typical monsoon pattern was moving across the North Scottsdale area when a dry lightning strike hit near 128th Street and Dynamite Boulevard (Rio Verde …
The Fountain Hills Coalition reminds parents and other residents to be on the lookout for illicit fentanyl pills circulating here and throughout the state.
Illicit fentanyl is dangerous and 100 times more powerful than morphine. Overdoses have occurred throughout Arizona because drug cartels and others are adding illicitly-produced fentanyl to heroin, meth and cocaine to increase their potency.
âAnd some people believe they are purchasing another drug, like Xanax, and they donât know itâs laced with fentanyl,â said Mike Scharnow, coalition board member and Town Councilman.
âThose type of situations can easily lead to overdose deaths.â
The Fountain Hills Coalition for the past decade has urged families to talk now, and often, about the dangers of any drug use.