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    Commentary: Fentanyl feels like the monster coming for our kids. How do parents talk about it?

    by Paul Thornton, Los Angeles Times Oct 04, 2022 2 minutes
    Johann Hervert, 18, sits next to a memorial on the steps outside Helen Bernstein High School on Sept. 16, 2022, in Los Angeles after a fentanyl-laced pill led to the overdose death of a student.

    It’s been a banner few years for parents having to talk about deadly things with their children. A pandemic. Mass shootings. Climate change. The end of democracy.

    And now fentanyl.

    Catastrophes like COVID-19 and global warming are problems on a scale so vast that they can be difficult to understand, let alone explain to our children (and believe me, I’m trying).

    Fentanyl, on the other hand, feels like the

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