2023-10-23 00:16:50
Fentanyl has become a lethal drug in the United States in recent years with numbers that are beginning to be terrifying: it can kill with just one dose, and today it leaves 200 dead a day and thousands of broken families. It is the leading cause of death among Americans aged 18 to 49 and its expansion throughout the world seems unstoppable.
Journalist Alejandra Andrade once again takes the bus for ‘Out of coverage’ on Cuatro (premiere of the new season this Monday at 10:50 p.m.) and travels to Los Angeles and San Francisco, epicenters of the epidemic caused by this lethal drug , which they say is fifty times more powerful than heroin.
In this way, the presenter, who received the Ondas Award in 2019 for her work in this Mediaset format, will dedicate two special installments to analyzing this drama, which is also beginning to appear on the Spanish streets. «We have tried to explain the addiction to a medication that is legal with a prescription, but we have verified that it is also being used on the street. In Cañada Real, for example, heroin and cocaine are already being cut with fentanyl,” explains Andrade, who clarifies, however, that this is a worrying fact, but there is no need to be alarmed. «The Ministry of Health has strict control of fentanyl right now. But we have verified that this drug is already among us », she says.
On her trip to the United States, the journalist saw first-hand how fentanyl is especially harming younger people. She remembers the opioid crisis that caused many citizens to become addicted. In the first installment of the report, the program addresses how the chemical fentanyl reaches from China to Mexico, where cartels use it to cut other drugs such as heroin, and from there it is sent to California with the help of illegal immigrants willing to risk it to be able to cross the border.
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In all this maelstrom of data, the journalist confesses her obsession with an issue that continues to appear in the media. «I think there is a lot of misinformation and people don’t know. We have worked very rigorously, we have spoken with doctors who are on the front lines and we have spoken with experts on the illegal and legal parts of fentanyl. How is it possible that there are patients addicted to a drug that a doctor has prescribed for them? », Questions the communicator, who is also in charge of directing this format that she produces in collaboration with Producciones Imposibles and Onza.
Expected return
With these two new installments, Andrade returns to Cuatro with one of the programs that has given him the most professional joy. The format was canceled in 2019 and, four years later, the new management of Mediaset España decided to recover it to boost the communication group’s second channel. «It was a joy and a pleasure to get together again. “I am very excited and happy,” she confesses.
Andrade returns with more experience and professional background to a program that does not address easy issues. «Now the issues affect me less. In ‘Callejeros’ or ‘Encarcelados’ she returned home screwed. Due to age or habit, after entering many conflictive places and living with the drama, I manage to separate it. I empathize a lot and I stay in contact with many of the characters I interview, so they are part of my life,” she says.
«I empathize a lot and remain in contact with many of the characters I interview and who are part of my life»
He also returns with more calm to face the weekly scrutiny of the audiences: «Before I was obsessed with data. “TV consumption has decreased and now it is consumed in another way.”
For the new installments, which will be broadcast soon on Cuatro, the journalist does not reveal their contents, although she anticipates that they will continue along the same lines as the two reports on fentanyl. «They are very different themes, but all with a very clear social complaint, with a lot of streets and giving a lot of importance to the protagonists of the stories. We have managed to enter places where cameras usually do not enter,” says the journalist who assures, of course, that she is more about working on the street, in contact with people. «I wouldn’t see myself in a set format, I don’t know if I would know how to do it. I’m not even worthy of being in the newsroom. What I know how to do is go to record, do interviews and be outside,” she says.
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