“It looked like he had just fallen asleep…I begged him; please don’t go.”

Fentanyl shuts down the respiratory system, which stops breathing and leads to death if lifesaving interventions, like Narcan, are not immediately used. Often, victims just look like they’re sleeping.

Chris Didier shares his story of losing his son Zach to fentanyl poisoning. Zach thought he was taking a Percocet® that he got from a dealer through Snapchat; he didn’t know it was fake and laced with 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.