About MAPDA
The story of MAPDA begins with the tragic deaths of three adolescents who each lost their lives to an accidental overdose. Their mothers united to form a powerful response to these preventable deaths. Knowing the facts is not enough.
One mother fighting alone cannot change a platform.
Or a retailer.
Or a legislature.
But mothers together can.
We are not a public service announcement. We are not a pamphlet. We are not a website for talking to your kids. There are hundreds of organizations doing that work. We respect them.We are doing something different.
MAPDA is an organization of fighting-mad moms. We identify the specific forces putting kids at risk — the social media platforms algorithmically serving drug content to teenagers, the THC retailers marketing gummies to kids, the counterfeit pill networks operating openly through Instagram and Snapchat, the legislative gaps that give actors bad cover — and we organize mothers to go after them.
Specifically. Relentlessly. Until something changes.
We started with pharmaceutical companies selling prescription opioids to kids. We made a difference. We won.
The threats facing our kids today are different. Drugs reach them earlier. More quietly. More easily than ever before. Prescription pills at home. Counterfeit pills on social media. Fentanyl hidden in what looks like medicine. This is not the world we grew up in.