Overview

The National Fentanyl Awareness Day on April 29th was established in 2022 by a grassroots coalition of families who had lost children to fentanyl overdoses.

The organization Facing Fentanyl established National Fentanyl Prevention and Awareness Day on August 21st.

Both were formally acknowledged by federal agencies like the CDC as well as state governments that passed resolutions to officially incorporate the dates into public health calendars.