 They want to hear the presidential candidates' plans to stop the fentanyl crisis, how they will go after China for fueling this epidemic, and how they plan on ending the stigma surrounding fentanyl use because it can happen to anyone. Tom Basil, a pastor, was 27 years clean of drug use. He died of a fentanyl overdose just three months ago. Here's his wife. It's not just people that are coming across the border. It's fentanyl.