After losing her son Zachary to fentanyl poisoning, mother Laura Didier joins "The Story" to give a warning to parents everywhere of the dangers of the illicit drug often readily available to teens.
Virgil Xavier Bordner, 22, sold a counterfeit pill laced with fentanyl to 17-year-old Zachary Didier in December 2020. Didier died after ingesting the pill.
Some parents in Elk Grove were concerned when their high school students brought home Narcan, an overdose reversal drug, after a school assembly on Monday, but the organizers behind the assembly said it's the first step in educating teens about the dangers of counterfeit pills.
2021 marked the deadliest year for Americans dying from drug overdoses, with the death toll surpassing 100,000 according to the CDC. As the overdose numbers climb, reports show most of these deaths involve a potent synthetic opioid like fentanyl.
Even more tragically, many fentanyl-related death