Episodes

July 9, 2025

Narcan Saved Lives, But It Couldn't Save His Son

Send us a text A federal narcotics officer who lost his son to fentanyl shares his heartbreaking personal story while explaining the realities of fighting the deadly opioid crisis from both sides. • Officer Rick's 19-year-old son died from fentanyl after multiple overdoses, despite Rick's 25 years …

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July 1, 2025

Stigma Kills: How Understanding Addiction Science Saves Lives

Send us a text The Fatal Facts of Fentanyl podcast is dedicated to raising Awareness to the illicit FENTANYL crisis hitting the USA. The goal is to SAVE LIVES and families from this travesty. Awareness and Education are the K...

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June 26, 2025

From Tragedy to Hope: A Mother's Journey Through Unimaginable Loss

Send us a text Freida Hoyle shares her devastating experience of losing both her sons—Stephen to homicide and Michael to fentanyl poisoning—and how she transformed her grief into a mission to help others battling addiction. Her powerful story illustrates how grief can lead to addiction and how know…

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June 18, 2025

Snapchat, Fake Pills, and the Truth No One Told Us

Send us a text The Fatal Facts of Fentanyl podcast is dedicated to raising Awareness to the illicit FENTANYL crisis hitting the USA. The goal is to SAVE LIVES and families from this travesty. Awareness and Education are the K...

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June 4, 2025

From Cancer to Addiction: Peyton's Story Will Change How You View Add…

Send us a text Addiction doesn't discriminate—it can begin in the most unexpected ways, even through legitimate medical treatment. In this powerful conversation, Kelly shares the heartbreaking journey of her son Peyton, whose battle with opioid dependency began after cancer treatment. At 16, Peyton…

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May 28, 2025

America's Invisible War: Fighting the Fentanyl Epidemic

Send us a text RE-UPLOAD ... Season 2, Episode 1.. Original Interview for Season 1, Episode 1 was in July, 2021 with Derek Maltz, SR. ~ former DEA Special Operations leader, and more recently... The Acting Director of the DEA - Appointed by President Donald J. Trump from January-May, 2025 The infor…

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May 21, 2025

One and Done ~ Snapchat Dealers

Send us a text Interview with Jaime Puerta, president of VOID, Victims Of Illicit Drugs, in particular Illicit Fentanyl bombarding our country with hundreds-of-thousands of deaths of our youth and young adults. Jaime is a grieving father who lost his 16-year old son, Daniel when he ingested a count…

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May 14, 2025

Matthews Voice

Send us a text It can happen to anyone. My son was poisoned with a counterfeit Percocet that contained pure fentanyl. We lost our amazing son, Matthew Thomas, at 20 years of age to fentanyl poisoning. He took what he thought was a Percocet and died moments later on the morning of 07/25/2020. Becaus…

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April 30, 2025

Understanding Addiction as a Disease ~ Know Science, NO Stigma

Send us a text Understanding Addiction - Know Science, No Stigma... Interview with Dr. Charles Smith, author of this most informative book ... a must-read for those struggling from the tragic effects of drugs and alcohol.. a...

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April 23, 2025

Fentanyl Awareness ~ Virginia Krieger

Send us a text Angel Mom of Tiffany and Zachary. My children are gone - I fight to save YOURS. The overwhelming majority of Fentanyl POISONINGS are NOT "overdoses". The term "overdose" implies the user had knowledge of the ...

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April 16, 2025

Deceptively Distributed

Send us a text "This gets more ridiculous everyday. And what is even more ridiculous is the complete lack of effort on the part of this administration in getting the word effectively spread. And where are State and local Pu...

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April 8, 2025

Luca's Story Saves Lives

Send us a text The first thing I told the detective on the case was, “I don’t want any other mommies to feel this way! I don’t want this guy to kill anyone else! Promise me you’ll get him!” I didn’t know Fentanyl was being so...

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April 2, 2025

Frontline Cartel Combat

Send us a text Imagine devoting your whole career serving your country as a Naval officer, then in law enforcement and now working for the federal government combating the drug crisis in America... and your own son succumbs t...

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March 26, 2025

Know Hope NC

Send us a text One day at a time... This is an interview with Freida, a mother who lost her only 2 sons. Her oldest son to a homicide and 4 years later his brother died from Fentanyl poisoning. Both died at the age of 24 ...

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March 19, 2025

The OxyCartel

Send us a text RAPP, short for Relatives Against Purdue Pharma... An activist group who testified at hearings, lent support at whistle-blower trials and marched outside pharmaceutical-funded physician meetings to make their v...

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March 12, 2025

One Pill - Can Kill

Send us a text Zach purchased on SnapChat, what he thought was a Percocet. That one pill ended his life with a lethal dose of Fentanyl. Death by Deception! Parents need to realize the drug paradigm has shifted dramatically ...

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March 5, 2025

Netflix The Pharmacist - Dan Schneider

Send us a text In 1999, after losing his son Danny in a drug-related shooting in New Orleans and lacking answers from police, a small town pharmacist – Dan Schneider – beats the odds when he embarks on a dogged pursuit to fin...

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Feb. 26, 2025

Peytons Story - STOP the STIGMA!

Send us a text It is easy to judge. It is more difficult to understand. Understanding requires compassion, patience and a willingness to believe good hearts sometimes choose poor methods. Through judging we separate. Thro...

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Feb. 19, 2025

Death and Destruction

Send us a text Derek S. Maltz, retired from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) after 28 years of dedicated service. Maltz was the Special Agent in Charge (SAC) of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ), Special ...

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Feb. 10, 2025

The Fatal Facts of Fentanyl

Fatal Facts of Fentanyl The Fatal Facts of Fentanyl is dedicated to raising awareness of the illicit fentanyl crisis hitting the USA. It is killing tens-of-thousands of people who suffer from substance use disorders and first...

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Jan. 18, 2022

One and Done

Interview with Jaime Puerta, president of VOID, Victims Of Illicit Drugs, in particular Illicit Fentanyl bombarding our country with hundreds-of-thousands of deaths of our youth and young adults. Jaime is a grieving father ...

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Nov. 16, 2021

The Sackler Cartel - Justice Needs to Prevail

The Sackler Cartel needs to face justice! RALLY in Washington DC on 12/03/21 to plead with the DOJ to pursue the evidence they already have on the architects of the opioid epidemic - The Sackler Cartel Join parents and loved ...

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Nov. 9, 2021

KNOW Science - NO Stigma

Understanding Addiction - Know Science, No Stigma... Interview with Dr. Charles Smith, author of this most informative book ... a must-read for those struggling from the tragic effects of drugs and alcohol.. and for their fa...

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Nov. 2, 2021

Cleaning Out The Closet

Hear, firsthand from Tracy, who was in an automobile accident in 2000.... which, began her long, painful journey with prescription Oxycontin and Xanax - "A cocktail for death"... "Today of all days try to take out your #shame...

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