USA First Lady Dr. Jill Biden and Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff

Dear Governor Hobbs,
I am an Ambassador for the Drug Epidemic Memorial Wall and an advocate to bring
awareness about illegal Fentanyl. We are losing the equivalent to an airplane load
of people each day. Fentanyl is exterminating our younger generation. The age
group was 18 - 45, but it seems like it is affecting children even younger. My cousin
just lost his granddaughter that was only 14 years old to a fake pill that sadly,
contained fentanyl.
I lost my only son, Jacob Guerrero, forever 31, to this poison. Jacob was a very
outgoing and happy person. He loved to ride his road bike and play tennis. He had a
wonderful spirit and would help anyone out. He was dabbling with cocaine when he
sadly used cocaine on May 30, 2020, little did he know that it was poisoned with
fentanyl, a weapon of mass destruction.
Every day, I read the tragic stories of people all over the world that have lost their
loved ones to this epidemic and it’s truly heartbreaking. Family members have had
Memorial Plaques made of their loved one in remembrance and in an attempt to
bring awareness and honor them. The number of submissions just grows daily. That
being said, the DEA has a Fentanyl Memorial Wall Exhibit in Arlington, West Virginia
dedicated to those lost to Fentanyl and they continue to accept new submissions
despite having run out of room.
They responded to my submission back in November that “due to the overwhelming
amount of submissions we are receiving we are unfortunately slowly running out of
space to put up new photos that we’ve received and then planning on how to put
them up in the most efficient way”. This is why I am writing to you.
We would like to have hard copies of our loved ones in a permanent location
displayed here in the Capital of Arizona like the DEA Fentanyl Memorial Wall Exhibit.
Each of us that has lost a loved one to this poison is working tirelessly in different
ways to stop this epidemic and save lives.
Please help our Arizona families by honoring those lost by installing a dedicated wall.
This will be a place for loved ones to visit, friends/family to honor those lost to this
epidemic, and a place for others to bring their children to educate and spread
awareness of the dangers of this deadly poison.
Sincerely,
Theresa Guerrero, State Lead
773 S Saguaro Ridge Place
Tucson, AZ
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