Whereas families in the United States affected by the use of illicit fentanyl use Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day to— (1) preserve the memory of the individuals lost to fentanyl overdose or poisoning who were unsuspecting victims, experimenting with the drug, or suffering from substance use disorder; (2) acknowledge the devastation caused by the use of illicit fentanyl and other dangerous drugs; and (3) share awareness about the dangers of the use of illicit fentanyl to prevent a public health crisis, self-harm, addiction, and death; Whereas Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day is celebrated each year on August 21 by State governors and attorneys general, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, parent-teacher associations, the High Intensity Drug Trafficking Areas program, the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the Drug Enforcement Administration (referred to in this preamble as the DEA ), and hundreds of other organizations throughout the United States; Whereas fentanyl is a highly addictive synthetic opioid that is 100 times more potent than morphine; Whereas, according to the DEA, illicit fentanyl is— (1) manufactured with other illicit drugs to increase potency; (2) sold as a powder or mixed with other illicit drugs; and (3) pressed into counterfeit pills to look like legitimate pharmaceutical drugs; Whereas the fentanyl crisis in the United States is a serious public safety threat; Whereas the illicit fentanyl poisoning rate in 2022 was the highest in the history of the United States, and fentanyl poisoning was the number one cause of death among citizens of the United States aged 18 to 45; Whereas synthetic opioids, primarily fentanyl and the analogues of fentanyl, are devastating communities and families at an unprecedented rate, claiming 2/3 of the more than 107,000 lives lost to drug overdoses in 2021; Whereas drug-related deaths throughout the United States reached a new record in 2022, with at least 109,680 deaths