Presidential candidates propose different strategies to fight fentanyl [Video]

Overdose deaths from powerful synthetic opioids like fentanyl have been up since the last presidential election. Some voters impacted by the crisis say it hasn’t been a big enough focus in the current campaign. “I’ve barely heard it mentioned by either camp,” said Jim Rauh, founder of the advocacy group Families Against Fentanyl.The group funded dozens of billboards around the Democratic and Republican National Conventions this year to send a message to candidates on both sides: “Fentanyl is a weapon of mass destruction.”“The number one duty of the US government is to protect its citizens. It is not fulfilling that duty. I could see this thing growing from the time my son died in 2015,” Rauh said. Rauh’s son, Tommy, was one of the 9,580 people who died from an overdose involving synthetic opioids in 2015, according to data from the National Center for Health Statistics. Since then, those numbers …