Dedicated to Clayton

 We’re Aaron and Katelyn, the founders of FREE. We’ve both been sober for over a year through medication-assisted treatment (MAT), and we’re proud of how far we’ve come. Addiction nearly took everything from us, our health, our relationships, and our futures. But with the right support, treatment, and each other, we’ve been able to rebuild our lives.

We created FREE because we’ve seen the damage fentanyl causes up close. We've lost people we love, Clayton was one of them, and we know how easy it is to fall through the cracks. Most people don’t realize how quickly fentanyl can take someone’s life, or how many lives it’s already taken. We wanted to take action.

This project is more than just awareness. It’s our way of turning pain into purpose, by educating people, reducing stigma, and connecting others to the resources that helped us. We’re not professionals or a big organization. We’re two people in recovery trying to make a difference in our community, one post, one message, and one life at a time.

Fentanyl isn’t just another drug—it’s a synthetic opioid up to 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine. It’s cheap to make, easy to press into fake pills, and often mixed into street drugs without anyone knowing. That’s what makes it so deadly. Even a tiny amount can cause an overdose, and most people don’t even realize they’re taking it.

In 2023, nearly 70% of all drug overdose deaths in the U.S. involved fentanyl or other synthetic opioids. It’s showing up in everything—fake Xanax, cocaine, even marijuana—and it’s changing the way we think about addiction and harm reduction.

FREE exists because fentanyl is different. It’s faster, more unpredictable, and harder to detect than any drug we’ve seen before. Most recovery and harm reduction efforts lump it in with other substances, but we believe it deserves its own spotlight. That’s why we’re focused on educating, connecting, and creating real tools to help people survive it.