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All right, here we are myfriend's final hour of today's broadcast. I'm
Jimmy Lakey behind a microphone. You'rein front of the speakers, and that's
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also don't forget to have another podcastcalled the Critical Mission Podcast, and that's
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a person's life Today you're born andthe day you figure out why, And

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that's what the Critical Mission Podcast allheard on iHeartRadio and also anywhere else you
listen to podcasts. Just type inmy name Jimmy Lakey. All right,
it kind of ties into what Ijust said about the day you figure out
why you're still here on the planet, and sometimes that comes to heartbreaking tragedy.
I want to introduce you to aperson I met just a couple of

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weeks ago, and I'm pleased tohave Sabrina Jankowski on the hotline. She's
a local school teacher in the columbudarea and taught to school for years and
yet finds herself not just teaching nowbut very passionate and engaged in the topic
of fentanyl awareness and just the problem, the crisis that it is in America

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because of our story of her ownson's passing because of exposure to fentanyl.
Sabrina, welcome to the program.Good morning, Good morning, Jimmy.
How are you do it? Veryvery well? Thanks for hopping on here.
I know you're comfortable telling the stories. I want to get to the
story of your son and kind ofwhat got you on this topic of conversation

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about fentanyl awareness. But right itfrom I know you have an organization that
is working now to bring awareness andstop some of this fentanyl badness is going.
Do you have a website? Let'spitch that right up front. Well,
the website is setanel Awareness Care Team. Fact, that's ACT dot org
and right now we are actually underconstruction. I'm not quite sure that you'll

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be able to ACT that's it,but it should be up and running shortly.
You got it, Aur Sabrien.Let's dive into this. You are
a school teacher, you have toddkids, and now you feel like you're
kind of trying to teach the worldabout the dangers of fentanyl. What got
you under this topic of fentanyl?What happened? So unfortunately, it's interesting

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that we're having this interview today becausetomorrow is my son's birthday, Joseph Jenkowski.
He goes by Joey, and hewould have been twenty six. We're
about ready here on July twelfth,to approach the two year anniversary of his
death. Per Son was poisoned byfetanyl And when I say poisoned by fetanyel,

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what I mean is my son,good kid, hard worker, your
normal average student, love sports,all of those things or person should I
say not student? And Joey waspartying for his birthday and unfortunately was purchased

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some cocaine and it had fetanel init. He died instantly. It wasn't
what he was seeking. He wasnot an addict. There are people that
are social drinkers, and I wouldsay that this was a social experience that
he had. Unfortunately it took hislife right away. People don't realize setanel

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out the size of a granule ofsugar or salt to kill a person that
is not used to the drug itself. The voice of Sabrina Jankowski. Sabrina,
occasionally your phone's popping in and out. Don't know if you're in a
good spot or not, but we'regetting a ninety nine percent of it.
I just want you to be awareof if you can tilt your head the
other it may work out well.So your son died instantly. He wasn't

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seeking out Finch and al, hewas partying for his birthday. Died instantly.
At that point, did did you? Were you even aware of fentanyl?
I mean we hear it and wherelike, oh people overdose on fentanyl.
No one really overdoses on fentanyl.No one's out of the street going
give me some fentanyl. It's it'sit's a poison and it's And how did

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it end up on your son's whateverhe was doing? How does it?
What is this? Are these peopletrying to kill people or are they what's
happening here? How is fentanyl gettingon this stuff? Because no one's wanting
fentanyl. So, first of all, there are people that are addicted to
fentanyl, unfortunately, and generally it'saddicts who are users of heroin and they

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graduate to feanyl and they can handlethe drug itself because they've built up a
tolerance. For those people who haven'tbuilt up a tolerance, which is ninety
percent of the people that die fromfentanyl poisoning, they don't have a tolerance.
And so in my son purchase thisproduct that he bought, he bought

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it off a snackchat, which isthe number one platform in which kids people
are buying drugs. And it doesn'tnecessarily mean that it's an actual street drug.
It's also in pharmaceutical drugs. Sodrug dealers are lacing oxycotton xanax adderall

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all of the pills that a normalcollege student might be looking for to help
them study, relax party, whateverit is. And like I said,
it only takes one granule. Alot of times kids will split a pill
when they buy the pill and oneperson dies and the other one doesn't,

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because literally the amount is so smallfor somebody to die from that's not used
to it. One person dies andthe other one doesn't, and that happens
quite often. Unfortunately. Let meask you, is that son obviously bought
something from someone. Is there anyconsequence for the people that are selling this

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fentanyl ace product, they may noteven know. They might have got it
from someone else that wasted, butthey're still dealing in this stuff. Is
there any consequence for these people?Are the one who sold to your son?
So the kid who sold to myson. I don't believe that my
son would have purchased it except forthe fact that he knew the kid and

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he was somebody that he went tomiddle school and high school with. He
wasn't necessarily a friend, but hewas somebody that Joey knew. And the
kid kept hitting all kinds of otherpeople up on Snapchat saying buy from me,
buy from me, buy from me, and nobody would buy from the
kid. And months had went byand nobody bought from him. And I

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think Joey just had a weak momentpurchased it because it was his birthday week.
And as a result, my sonis dead. I know the kid.
I have personally spoke to that kid. However, nothing has been done
to him. Unfortunately, it's reallyhard to pin a sentinel death on somebody,

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and in Colorado it's extremely hard becauseof the laws that we have.
Recently, our laws changed to whereit's purchased selling drugs which the intent to
kill. And so now that lawhas changed and people are giving us the
first sentence, but before that itwas just distribution and a four year sentence.

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At Max The voice of Sabrina Jankowski. She has started a new movement,
an organization called Fentonyl Awareness Care Team. We'll tell you their website will
be up soon, but we'll giveyou how you can stay in touch with
him in just a moment. ButSabrina Jankowski's son died of FENTONYL exposure and
now she has a new kind ofa focus in life. That did is

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just letting people know that fentonol isa real, threatened danger. Sabrina,
I'm sure once your son's tragic passyou became aware of fentanyl, and like
me, I'm guessing the numbers arestunning. Your son is sadly not the
only one. A matter of fact, it's the number one cause of death

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for that age group and a lotof age groups right now. It is
a crisis and epidemic in America thatI don't think people realize how widespread it
is. No, they don't.Fetanyl kills three hundred people a day in
the United States. It's the numberone killer from the ages of eighteen to
forty five, primarily fentanyl that peopleare Excuse me, the product that people

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are seeking out is something like oxycotton'sannix. Like I said, adderall,
and it's not what they get.It kills somebody every ten minutes. So
if you just think about the factthat every ten minutes goes by, there's
somebody that is dying a fetanyl andunfortunately, seven out of every ten pills

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that are purchased are leaked with tetannel. So just think about yourself. If
you're in a group of people atten and somebody decides to buy something,
seven of the people are wiped outfrom fetanyl. That's a better picture to
put in your mind because it issuch an epidemic right now and nothing is
really being done well. Sabrina Tankowskiagain, my guest, Sabrina, You've

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decided you're going to do your bestto not just honor your son, but
to save other families from the pain, the misery, and the suffering that
you've gone through with the loss ofyour son. You've started the Fentanyl Awareness
Care Team. Talk about this organizationthat you started and what's your intent.
The goal, for a fact isto get into middle schools and high schools

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and educate the youth. That's primarilywhere the death is taking place on the
highest toll of n However, everybodyshould be aware of it because it's happening
with adults as well, So wewent to facets to Fact one is to
get into the schools, like Ihad said, and talk to them about

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fentanyl awareness. Let them know howeasy it is to come across it and
the dangers of it. Anybody whoever tries to give you anything, do
not accept it. If you didnot buy the pill from the pharmacy yourself,
don't take it from anybody because youare playing Russian roulette. And how
many of us would do that?Not many? Right. The other thing

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that we are focusing on is atsome point we want to open up a
clinic that will serve as a placefor people to grieve and have a support
group and support each other with fentanylloss. So people like myself, parents,
brothers, sisters who have a lovedone that died of fentanyl. Because

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the support groups out there for fentnelare not uh, there's not a lot
of them, and the stigma,unfortunately is oh, they're just a drug
addict, And in fact, onlyten percent of the people that die from
are actual drug addicts, and they'repeople who have come out of rehab and
then they've relapsed and used the sameamount that they would would have used when

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they were using. So this clinicthat we plan to open up will serve
people in traditional therapy and holistic waysas well. Through my grieving process,
I've at some points I've needed talktherapy and at some points I've needed some
other holistic modalities to help me,you know, get through the days and

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just a function because of the lossof my son. Your son has been
gone, I think you said abouttwo years, and just the grieving process,
I'm sure it's ongoings should never replacethat's a parents should never have to
bury their child for darn shore right. How long did it take you after

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the death is to focus and sayI got to do something that I can't
just sit here and grieve. Iwill grieve, but I've got to take
action. At which point did youhave that realization that you need to do
something about within the last six months, to be quite honest with you,
and it was through a good friendof mine. I knew that I always

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wanted to help others and raise awareness. Being a school teacher, I was
one of those people who was awareof fentanyl because I teach middle schoalers and
we educate them all the time onthe different drugs and everything that are out
there, So it's something that Iwas aware of. Most grieving parents don't
even know what fentyl is until theirchild dies. So within the last six

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months, a friend of mine cameto me and said, how about we
start a nonprofit And that was somethingthat was very enticing to me because I
knew from the day that Joey died. I knew that I needed to have
a voice and I needed to getout there and talk to other people about
it and let them know because Idon't want anybody else to go through this
tragedy. I agree every day.Still my life, you know, is

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still the same, but I'm tryingto figure out how to have a new
life and a new normal. Andthe grootening process never changes, and he's
never his memory is never going togo away. He was a person just
like you or I, And yeah, the grief doesn't change. Let me

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ask you a couple of couple ofmore moments here on the radio, Sabrina
Jankowski, and I want you tobe able to a a second, give
a contact. I knew the website'sunder construction how they can contact you.
Support you donate to the nonprofit thefive oh one Seed three, all that
would get that contact information ready.But it's just if there's a word of
advice you give to parents right now, whether you have a parent of it

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a middle school or you have atwenty one year old like you did,
what should parents be aware of andwhat should parents be communicating Because with three
hundred people dying a day, everyten minutes, someone dying in America because
of fentanyl, what two parents needto be aware of right now? Hey,
talk to your kids. And thatwas one thing I did talk to

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my kids. I was very openabout it. And I think there's just
the difference because I was a schoolteacher or I am a school teacher,
and so I was aware of thosethings to have an open line of communication.
The other is you need to havea password. If your kid feels
that they're in danger wherever they are, and maybe that's send a text of

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a certain emoji meaning I need helpand I need you to come right now.
So that's a big deal. Theother is narcan. If you can
get your hands on narcan, pleasehave your kids carry it. Never know
if it's going to be them orsomebody else who's gonna need it because fennel

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is so dangerous. Like I said, picture a pill and one little granule
out of that pill will kill aperson who does not have a drug habit.
Well, Sabrina Jankowski, you've startedthe Fentanyl Awareness Care Team FACT.
I know the website's under construction,but give that website again, and if
someone real quick wants to be intouch with you, donate to the nonprofit.

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How do they do that? Sofact fact dot org and are what
sin is zefi dot com and youcan input fact and it'll bring up the
information for you to make a donation. And that's the b f f y
dot com. Say that again.You cut out at a very important time.

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Say that one more time. Zeffiez is in zebra e f f
y dot com z E S.Sorry, I'm getting a little static there.
Say it one more time. Iwant everybody to hear it f f
y dot com and then type infact. Okay, I got you now.

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Hey, Sabrina, I appreciate youhopping on the program. Thank you
very much. I'll pass this outto the listeners again on the other side
of the break, Sabrina Drankowski,fentonyl Awareness Care Team. Everybody stand by
six hundred k c O. L. Laky on the radio.
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