Fentanyl is so ubiquitous that it could be baked into any pill that one purchases on the street. Even children who aren’t looking for opioids are dying from taking what they thought were amphetamines that a friend may have purchased on the internet. Another issue: drug cartels are now expanding their profits by cutting that fentanyl with animal tranquilizers that no human should ever ingest. 

It’s prompted Mohawk Valley Republican state Assemblyman Robert Smullen, who lost his son in a traffic fatality, to propose new legislation called the “Fentanyl Fathers and Mothers Act."

This proposal will require New York state to develop and adopt a comprehensive Fentanyl Education, Awareness, and Recognition Program for all public, charter and private schools to implement for their students.

Smullen and Greg Swan, founder of FentanylFathers.org, joined Capital Tonight to discuss the legislation.