. >> lisa hillman welcome to the annapolis book festival and thank you for coordinating the festival and this event. a couple of reminders before you begin first of all there should be a green ask a question at the bottom of your screen and as we proceed with their two excellent authors please feel free to write your questions as we get near the end of our session and number two buy their books. i've had the pleasure of reading both of these books so please buy your books. were here today to talk about the fentanyl crisis. both of these authors tell us what to be aware of. overdose deaths by the number one source of americans under the age of 50. number two the drug crisis was bad before the pandemic but covid is only made it worse. last year more than 90,000 people died from overdose and maybe one of the worst years ever. tragically many of these deaths resulted from fentanyl. fentanyl is a drug that kills more americans every year than any drug in history. to learn more about these facts first coming to you from annapolis maryland a friend and colleague jessie dunleavy. jesse is an

. >> i am lisa hillman. welcome to the 18th annapolis book festival.cial thanks to the school for core dating the festival and thanks all of our sponsors and anonymous donors helping to underwrite this. a couple of reminders. first of all they should be a green question button at the bottom of your screen. as we proceed today with our excellent authors please feel free to write your question in there and as we get near the end of our session will do our best to answer your questions.

. >> i am lisa hillman. welcome to the 18th annapolis book festival. special thanks to the school for core dating the festival and thanks all of our sponsors and anonymous donors helping to underwrite this. a couple of reminders. first of all they should be a green question button at the bottom of your screen. as we proceed today with our excellent authors please feel free to write your question in there and as we get near the end of our session will do our best to answer your questions. number two, by their books. i've hadbo the pleasure of readg both of these books and i think i'm a better person for it. so please join me in buying your books and reading these books. we're here today to talk about theai open word crisis. this could well be the tail of the opioid crisis because both these authors tell us stories about opioid we all need to read and be awareee of. the second stage of what to share three facts. one, overdose deaths are the number one killer of young americans. americans under the age of 15. number one killer of our young people. number

. >> i'm lisa hillman. welcome to the 18th annapolis

. >> i'm lisa hillman. welcome to the 18th annapolis book festival. thanks to keith for coordinating the festival and all of our sponsors and anonymous donor helping to underwrite this. and when we begin, first of all, there should be i think a green ask a question button at the bottom of your screen. as we need today with our two excellent offers, please feel free to write your question in there and we get near the end of the session, we'll answer your questions, number one. and number two, buy their books. i've had the pleasure of reading several of these books and i think i'm a better person for it. so please buy your books. and we're here to talk about the toll of the opioid crisis and this well be the tale of the opioid crisis because both of these authors tell us stories about opioids that we all need to be aware of. to set the stage i want to share three facts, one, overdose deaths are the number one killer of young americans. americans under age of 50. number two, the drug crisis was before the pandemic, but covid has only made it worse. last