{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://www.sullivan.senate.gov/news/in-the-news/editorial-alaska-hurting-from-fentanyl", "EDITORIAL: Alaska hurting from fentanyl", "2024-10-23", "2024", "2024-10", "Republican", "Senate", "AK", "Dan Sullivan", "S001198", "www.sullivan.senate.gov", "sullivan", "https://www.sullivan.senate.gov/newsroom/press-releases?PageNum_rs=10", "scraper", "A recent story spoke to the alarming statics regarding Alaska drug overdoses, especially related to fentanyl.\n\nSuch opioids killed a record number of Alaskans in 2023 as Alaska\u2019s percentage of drug overdoses increased by 40% \u2014 the largest increase of any state for \u201923.\n\nAlaska had 123 drug overdose deaths in 2014, 105 in 1018 and 342 in 2023.\n\nTo say that Alaska is under attack is an understatement.\n\nBut that is how U.S. Sen. Dan Sullivan sees it. He has started a statewide fentanyl awareness campaign called \u201cOne Pill Can Kill.\u201d\n\nAnd one will.\n\nSullivan\u2019s website offers a toolkit designed to help Alaskans fight fentanyl\u2019s abuse.\n\n\u201cThis campaign will examine where fentanyl is coming from, where and how it is being sold, the dangers of the drug, how it impacts our Alaska communities, and the resources that are available for treatment, prevention, and reporting criminal activity,\u201d states Sullivan\u2019s site.\n\nAccess to the campaign, which is for all Alaskans who wish to join, is available through that site.\n\nThe information on the site includes, but is not limited to:\n\n\u2022 Fentanyl is the deadliest drug ever for Alaska.\n\n\u2022 It is being marketed on social media.\n\n\u2022 Drug cartels make fentanyl to appear as if it is candy, Xanax and other pharmaceuticals.\n\n\u2022 Six out of every 10 fake pills with fentanyl contain a lethal dose.\n\nWe share this information because it is valuable. Every Alaskan in one way or another is affected by fentanyl and other drug-related deaths; every community suffers the effects.\n\nWe also chose this topic because it is Red Ribbon Week, a week specifically designated for awareness of illegal drugs and their deadly potential, and Ketchikan has observed it for decades.\n\nAnnually, the week pays tribute to a U.S. drug enforcement officer who lost his life in Mexico while fighting illegal drug traffickers.\n\nAfter the death of Special Agent Enrique Camarena, a California congressman launched Camarena clubs in Camarena\u2019s hometown of Calexico, Calif. Hundreds of club members wore red ribbons and pledged to be drug-free. It led to a nationwide effort to educate youth in particular about the devastating result of drug abuse.\n\nThe clubs led to the annual Red Ribbon Week, which begins Oct. 23 \u2014 today.\n\nWe encourage readers here to look at Sullivan\u2019s website and gather information helpful to reducing the effects of fentanyl and other illegally distributed drugs. Then share the information, especially with children, regardless of whether they are \u201cgood\u201d kids or kids already living in a drug environment. Fentanyl makes no distinction.\n\nThis is a fight that is won one kid at a time. One individual. Then another, as Alaska strives \u2014 and it should actively \u2014 to become the state with the lowest number of drug-overdose deaths.\n\nAlaska doesn\u2019t want to be at the top of this list.\n\nBy: Editorial Board\n\nSource:", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-06T18:55:29Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://www.sullivan.senate.gov/news/in-the-news/editorial-alaska-hurting-from-fentanyl"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 2.716498915106058, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}