routine, just to feel clean, to feel fresh, to feel dry. and then as a young adult, when i started having my own children, i would always buy me johnson & johnson baby powder, whether it was a little bottle or the big bottle, i always had it. it just was that comfort, that trust. but then these allegations started coming out that that baby powder contained asbestos. we know that asbestos is a carcinogen. it has these tiny dagger like fibers that penetrate very deeply into human tissue. but johnson & johnson says flat out there, is no asbestos in its baby powder and it does not cause cancer. when i was notified i had cancer, i thought how weird is this. i spoke to a paralegal. they had the testing done on the tissues of my cancer. and it came back positive for asbestos. i was like, oh, my god.
i started having my own children, i would always buy me johnson & johnson baby powder, whether it was a little bottle or the big bottle, i always had it. it just was that comfort, that trust. but then these allegations started coming out that that baby powder contained asbestos. we know that asbestos is a carcinogen. it has these tiny dagger-like fibers that penetrate very deeply into human tissue. but johnson & johnson says flat out there is no asbestos in its baby powder and that its baby powder does not cause cancer. when i was notified i had cancer, i thought how weird is this. i spoke to a paralegal. they had the testing done on the tissues of my cancer. and it came back positive for asbestos. i was like, oh, my god. like, it s there. that connected me.
asbestos. we know that asbestos is a carcinogen. it has these tiny dagger-like fibers that penetrate very deeply into human tissue. but johnson & johnson says flat-out there is no asbestos in its baby powder and that its baby powder does not cause cancer. cnn chief investigative correspondent and anchor pamela brown joins us now. i used johnson & johnson baby powder when i was a kid and teens. you talk to so many people impacted by this. what are people going to learn from your reporting? they re going to learn a lot. look, this has been going on for years and years, these lawsuits against johnson & johnson, against its iconic product, the now discontinued talc baby powder. what we did is we rolled up our sleeves and we dug into the science. we looked at what the plaintiffs argue is proof that there was asbestos in johnson & johnson baby powder, including internal memos from inside johnson & johnson from the 1950s, where executives talked about the concern of liability from
linked to a bad batch of drugs that released with the veterinary tranquilizer. city leaders say this. these are brothers and sisters and her sons and her father was an mothers, who are tragically senselessly losing their lives because of this trope of scourge in your community. correspondent garrick tiny has more diesel from chicago hey garrett. hey julia, this tranquilizer is showing up now and it s more and more of the last few years because when it is mixed with fentanyl, and makes that drug even more potent and even more deadly. because this mononuclear. narcan which is used to save someone s life after an overdose does not work. it is also known as the zombie drug because they can cause human tissue near the injection site to rot and require amputation. in milwaukee, fishes believe a bad batch of street drugs containing z is the event
that s not the normal demographic of folks that we are seeing. authorities believe the string of deaths are linked to a bad batch of street drugs mixed with not just fentanyl but with an animal tranquilizer which amplifies the effects of fentanyl. xylazine not only makes drugs more potent and deadly also known as the zombie drug cause human tissue near the injection site to rot and require amputation. because it s not an opioid narcan doesn t work with xylazine. this is not just an opioid addiction problem. this is a problem that s present in every drug that we are seeing. d.e.a. is sounding the alarm on xylazine issuing a public safety alert on the sharp increase in the amount of fentanyl coming across the border that s been mixed with the drug. and warning xylazine is making the deadliest drug threat our country has ever faced. fentanyl even deadlier. far from the border in