Jelly Roll was on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. yesterday to testify before a Senate committee on the fentanyl epidemic.<\/p>\n
Here is part of his impassioned speech to the Senate.<\/p>\n
Jelly Roll said that every day, 190 people overdose and die. That’s about how many people fit in a 737.<\/p>\n
“Could you imagine the national media attention it would get if they were reporting that a plane was crashing every single day and killing 190 people?”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
He added that as a former drug dealer, he has a unique perspective because he used to be, quote, “part of the problem.”<\/p>\n
“I’ve attended more funerals than I care to share with y’all. I could sit here and cry for days about the caskets I’ve carried of people I love dearly, deeply in my soul. Good people. Not just drug addicts.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
And he spoke about his daughter, whose mother is an addict.<\/p>\n
“Every day, I get to look in the eyes of a victim in my household of the effects of drugs. Every. Single. Day.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Jelly Roll told the Senators that he’s not a Republican or a Democrat, and isn’t political at all.<\/p>\n
But he told them that people, “crave reassurance that their elected officials actually care more about human life than they do about ideology and partisanship.”<\/p>\n