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
but first a fox news alert, a drug some exprerts saying is a new fentanyl because how we cannily it is exploding in communities across the country. it is called zalaozen animal tranquilizer with flesh eating side effects with heroin but it doesn t respond to the life saving overdose treatment narcan. you know this is stuff that they want to put in your kids backpack and blamed for thousands of overdoses as experts try to catch up and keep track of the spiking trend. doctors don t know how to test for it and making this drug all the more dangerous. so i went to detroit where the cases are on the rise to learn more. now warning some of these images are graphic but we want to shows you the reality of this alarming problem. watch. americans have become all too familiar with the word fentanyl now deadly horrifying drug emerging in some of the america cities it is called zalozene. nonopioid so it is not approved for human use but it is a anesthetic for larger animals like horses.
but first a fox news alert, a drug some exprerts saying is a new fentanyl because how we cannily it is exploding in communities across the country. it is called zalaozen animal tranquilizer with flesh eating side effects with heroin but it doesn t respond to the life saving overdose treatment narcan. you know this is stuff that they want to put in your kids backpack and blamed for thousands of overdoses as experts try to catch up and keep track of the spiking trend. doctors don t know how to test for it and making this drug all the more dangerous. so i went to detroit where the cases are on the rise to learn more. now warning some of these images are graphic but we want to shows you the reality of this alarming problem. watch. americans have become all too familiar with the word fentanyl now deadly horrifying drug emerging in some of the america cities it is called zalozene. nonopioid so it is not approved for human use but it is a anesthetic for larger animals like horses.
but first a fox news alert, a drug some exprerts saying is a new fentanyl because how we cannily it is exploding in communities across the country. it is called zalaozen animal tranquilizer with flesh eating side effects with heroin but it doesn t respond to the life saving overdose treatment narcan. you know this is stuff that they want to put in your kids backpack and blamed for thousands of overdoses as experts try to catch up and keep track of the spiking trend. doctors don t know how to test for it and making this drug all the more dangerous. so i went to detroit where the cases are on the rise to learn more. now warning some of these images are graphic but we want to shows you the reality of this alarming problem. watch. americans have become all too familiar with the word fentanyl now deadly horrifying drug emerging in some of the america cities it is called zalozene. nonopioid so it is not approved for human use but it is a anesthetic for larger animals like horses.