Our Mission

Our mission is to empower and engage the public in working toward change, raising awareness, and collaborating efforts to combat the synthetic drug crisis.


APALD Description

In the United States, each day 275+ lives are lost to synthetic opioids. According to the CDC’s July 14th, 2022, report: Drug related deaths, primarily from Fentanyl, soared from 72,000 in 2019, to a record 93,000 in 2020. In March 2021, the CDC released 12-month provisional data and there were 105,000+ drug related deaths reported for the 12month period ending October 2021. The final statistics for 2021 are expected to show an exponential increase over previous years. 

Although opioids accounted for around 75 percent of all overdose deaths during the early months of the pandemic, approximately 87 percent of those included synthetic opioids. These synthetic poisonings demonstrate a paradigm shift in comparison to the so-called drug overdoses we have seen over the years. These deaths are in fact not overdoses; they are synthetic poisonings from ingestion of a drug that is fatal. In most cases, the lethal drug ingestion is unbeknownst to the victim, resulting in drug induced homicide. APALD encourages awareness of the issue, and legislative changes related to drug trafficking and drug induced deaths which have resulted from lethal poisoning from synthetics such as Fentanyl and Carfentanil.

Our Objectives

  • Provide support to families grieving the loss of a loved one to drug induced homicide and other drug related deaths
  • To empower its members to fight for legislative change that holds drug trafficking and drug dealers legally accountable for death resulting in dealing illicit drugs
  • To empower and support its members in bringing awareness to the general public, of the astounding numbers of children being murdered by illicit drug poisoning through Fentanyl, Carfentanil, and other synthetics
  • To foster an environment that will encourage its members to educate and support the general public, as it relates to stigma and lack of understanding of the disease of addiction


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