12/22/2025
💙 Understanding Federal Actions Addressing Fentanyl 💙
At Start Healing Now, our mission has always been simple: save lives, educate families, and protect our communities.
We’ve received questions about recent federal actions related to fentanyl. Here’s a clear, non-political overview of how these efforts differ — and why they all matter:
🔹 HALT Fentanyl Act
Focuses on disrupting trafficking by permanently placing fentanyl-related substances into Schedule I, closing loopholes used by drug traffickers.
🔹 SUPPORT Act (and its reauthorization)
Takes a public-health approach by expanding prevention, treatment, recovery services, workforce development, and fentanyl awareness — including school-based education through Bruce’s Law.
🔹 December 2025 Executive Order (WMD Designation)
Improves coordination across federal agencies by recognizing illicit fentanyl and its supply chain as a national security threat as well as a public-health crisis.
👉 Why this matters:
No single law or policy will end the fentanyl crisis. It takes multiple strategies working together — enforcement, education, prevention, treatment, recovery support, and access to lifesaving naloxone.
💙 Our Call to Action:
✔ Learn the signs of overdose
✔ Carry naloxone and know how to use it
✔ Talk openly with kids and teens about fentanyl
✔ Support prevention, education, and recovery efforts
✔ Share accurate information — stigma costs lives
Every conversation matters. Every kit matters. Every life matters.
