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Jan. 20, 2022: Parents talk about fentanyl impact; Hancock on housing, public safety

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Tommy Farmer/Tennessee Bureau of Investigation via AP
These pills were made to look like Oxycodone, but they’re actually an illicit form of the potent painkiller fentanyl. A surge in police seizures of illicit fentanyl parallels a rise in overdose deaths.

Parents who lost their children to fentanyl talk about the deadly epidemic. Then, Denver Mayor Michael Hancock is in Washington, D.C. for the U.S. Conference of Mayors. We ask about his priorities, including affordable housing and public safety. Plus, building codes after the Marshall Fire, and a college degree 50 years in the making.