Fentanyl’s toll and a troubled aircraft [Video]

Fentanyl’s silent toll

The U.S. Government calls fentanyl the most dangerous drug threat the United States has ever faced. For the past year we’ve been investigating the silent toll it’s been taking on this country’s most vulnerable: Our children.

When we discovered a kindergartener overdosed on fentanyl in her own California classroom, we started digging into the shocking case. And the further we probed, the more we learned of problems that could be leaving other children at risk.

Protecting children from fentanyl

When Addison Mott started to show signs that she was sick in her classroom, no one immediately recognized that she had been exposed to fentanyl, and when she first got to the hospital, she wasn’t tested for it. That’s something we found multiple times in the hundreds of fentanyl cases we reviewed in the last year. Now some states are requiring hospitals to screen for fentanyl every time they run a standard test for drugs.

The troubled past of the V-22 Osprey

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