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Los Angeles Times
Los Angeles Times
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Paul Thornton

Commentary: Fentanyl feels like the monster coming for our kids. How do parents talk about it?

It’s been a banner few years for parents having to talk about deadly things with their children. A pandemic. Mass shootings. Climate change. The end of democracy.

And now fentanyl.

Catastrophes like COVID-19 and global warming are problems on a scale so vast that they can be difficult to understand, let alone explain to our children (and believe me, I’m trying).

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