Alaska launches One Pill Can Kill campaign, as fentanyl overdose deaths reach record high | Homepage [Video]

Government officials gather that the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory in Anchorage to launch the new fentanyl awareness campaign, called One Pill Can Kill, in a four-step process.

“Focusing on prevention, harm reduction, treatment, and recovery,” explained Heidi Hedberg, Commissioner of the Alaska Department of Health. 

“This is poison from Lower 48. We’ll continue to work very hard at that, though. We’ve got to work hard at education. We’ve got to work hard to treat it as well,” said Governor Dunleavy. 

“We need all of us collectively to try to help and that’s the beginning of this campaign,” says Senator Dan Sullivan. 

More than 300 people overdosed on fentanyl last year as Alaska reached its highest record.

Mothers, Karen and Sandy know all too well the struggles of losing their sons to fentanyl poisoning.

Karen says her son Dylan was on opioids for a while after an ATV accident that almost …