Nine Lives - Epidemic

The fentanyl crisis plaguing communities and destroying lives from coast to coast
Over the past few weeks, we've looked into why the death toll is escalating and the root
causes of this nationwide problem
Tonight we examine how exactly fentanyl is actually getting into communities

It's something our Bob Woodruff has been tracking for several years at this point, and you'll
hear what he found in this latest installment of our series, Poisoned

Is this an epidemic or a crisis
How many people do we have to find lifeless
We're sitting back as the death toll's climbing
I think it's time for me to try to break the silence
Time to crack down on the ones that supply it
Bring it to the light so we can start fighting
Fentanyl overdose numbers keep rising
Man, things keep rising
Is this an epidemic or a crisis
How many people do we have to find lifeless
We're sitting back as the death toll's climbing
I think it's time for me to try to break the silence
Time to crack down on the ones that supply it
Bring it to the light so we can start fighting
Fentanyl overdose numbers keep rising
Man, things keep rising

As I bow my head tonight and I pray, I'm praying for the ones that lost their way
Praying they don't wind up laying in a grave

Another lost soul to a fentanyl overdose
How high do the numbers really gotta grow before someone steps up to try to take control
We know that it's coming in from Mexico
And China gets into them Packaged on boats

But the administration acts naive
They just turn around pretend that they can't see
It's almost like they're okay with us being poisoned
They're sitting back while China destroys us

This ain't an epidemic called a crisis
They're doing nothing as the death toll keeps rising
They got the source but yet they can't find it
But we can find Bin Laden while he's hiding

Then make a statement and pretend that they're trying
I'ma be honest, I really don't buy it
They need to take down the ones that provide it
Wait, shit, maybe they supply it

Is this an epidemic or a crisis
How many people do we have to find lifeless
We're sitting back as the death toll's climbing
I think it's time for me to try to break the silence

Time to crack down on the ones that supply it
Bring it to the light so we can start fighting
Fentanyl overdose numbers keep rising
Man, they just keep rising

Is this an epidemic or a crisis
How many people do we have to find lifeless
We're sitting back as the death toll's climbing
I think it's time for me to try to break the silence
Time to crack down on the ones that supply it
Bring it to the light so we can start fighting
Fentanyl overdose numbers keep rising
Man, they just keep rising

What's it gonna take for them to crack down
A woman nearly died from a dollar on the ground
Gotta thank God her kids still have mom around
Other parents had to put their baby in the ground

What is it? Do you need some fucking statistics
Maybe saying facts will help you all get it
The potency is 50 to 100 times stronger
than anything prescribed that's coming from a doctor

53,000 died the first half of last year
Now they're saying that it's more severe
The epidemic hidden by the pandemic
Snapchat's a new source for kids to get it

Dope boys don't care
It's your kids that they target
They're making fake pills then put them on the market
It's your teen that thinks it's a perk so he cops it
Probably won't care till your childhood cops it

Is this an epidemic or a crisis
How many people do we have to find lifeless
We're sitting back as the death toll's climbing
I think it's time for me to try to break the silence
Time to crack down on the ones that supply it
Bring it to the light so we can start fighting
Fentynal overdose numbers keep rising

Man, they just keep rising
Is this an epidemic or a crisis
How many people do we have to find lifeless
We're sitting back as the death toll's climbing
I think it's time for me to try to break the silence
Time to crack down on the ones that supply it
Bring it to the light so we can start fighting
Fentanyl overdose numbers keep rising

Man, they just keep rising

Written by:
Christopher Cranmer

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