“I just had this horrible feeling…I think something could be really wrong.”

Laura Collanton’s son Spencer died of fentanyl poisoning in 2020 at 20 years old. He took what he thought was a Xanax®, but it was a fake laced with fentanyl.

According to the Sacramento County DA Crime Lab, 98% of street drugs in Sacramento County are fake, and 99% contain deadly fentanyl.

Street drugs kill. Learn more about the dangers of fentanyl and how to protect yourself at www.safersacramento.com/fentanyl-facts.

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Safer Sacramento is brought to you by Sacramento County Department of Health Services, Substance Use Prevention and Treatment Services. This video was produced with support of the Community Service, Education and Research Fund and funded (In part) by the California Department of Public Health (CDPH), supported by Grant Number 6NU17 CE002747 from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Its contents are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official views of the CDC, the Department of Health and Human Services, the CDPH, or the Community Service, Education and Research Fund.