WASHINGTON, July 16 -- Sen. Maria Cantwell issued the following press release:
This week, Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) Administrator Terry Cole presented the Fentanyl Free America Prevention Award to Laura Lynch, a Bellevue mother who lost her teenage daughter, Brillion Lynch, to a fentanyl poisoning in April 2021, just days after her eighteenth birthday.
In the years since her daughter's death, Laura Lynch has become an impactful advocate and delivered "One Pill Can Kill" presentations to more than 30,000 students in 20 schools across Washington state. Laura has also advocated for fentanyl prevention with youth organizations, parents, and civic leaders, and has visited multiple times with U.S. Senator Maria Cantwell (D-WA) to wo...