A mother who tragically lost her teenage son to fentanyl poisoning is speaking out about the opioid crisis among the nation’s youth. Federal data shows that among 10- to 19-year-olds, fentanyl deaths rose 182% from 2019 to 2021.
“These days, experimenting with drugs is deadly,” said Janet Hehl, mother of Alec Pierce Hoffman.
“The cause of Alec’s death was, in fact, fentanyl poisoning. I know that he took a pill, I don’t know how he got it or what he thought it was,” Hehl told The Daily Signal in an April interview. “I found him unresponsive in his room in the afternoon after speaking to him that morning and did not suspect anything abnormal.”
Hoffman was 17 years old when he died in 2022. He was a competitive cross-country runner, humorous teenager, and student at St. John XXIII College Preparatory in Katy, Texas.
Hehl says she wishes…
