A mother's pain has turned into advocacy.There are multiple billboards across the city and state with Nick Rucker and other people who have died ingesting fentanyl faces plastered on them. Now, the local nonprofit, “Never Alone Nick Rucker Foundation,” is spreading awareness about the dangers of fentanyl in a new way. “If you told me two years ago that my son would be dead from drugs, I’d say, 'I’m sorry, you don’t know my son,'” Angela Parkerson said.Parkerson lost her 24-year-old son Nick Rucker in April 2021 when she said Rucker thought he was taking half of a prescription pain medicine, Percocet, but it was actually a fatal dose of fentanyl.Now, through the nonprofit Never Alone Nick Rucker Foundation, she and other parents are hoping to educate people about fentanyl. “Our main message is prevention and education, and we want people to know what they don’t know can kill them,” Parkerson said.Their latest call to action is a new specialty license plate that will be available for purchase in March. “It was really a group effort from all of the members of our nonprofit to come up with something that is visible that everybody can see that can support what we’re really trying to do, which is awareness. We want people to know. In a way, we also want to honor those who have already been taken,” Parkerson said.The new fentanyl awareness license plate has the organization's logo on it to bring more attention to the everyday heartbreak families endure. “The license plates say fentanyl changes everything because it did. It’s no longer about addiction and overdose. My son didn’t overdose. He took half a pill,” Parkerson said. The cost of the tag is $44, $10 of which will go directly to the nonprofit. “What the license plates would mean is that all the money we would receive would go towards education through billboards or just educating the community,” Parkerson said.On a mission to educate others about how deadly fentanyl can be, Parkerson said she now knows her advocacy is not going unnoticed. “I will tell you when Sen. Higdon made that press release about our license plate, it was the first time I ever really felt like they actually hear us,” Parkerson said.The Kentucky Transportation Cabinet requires 500 yearly registrations to keep the plate in active production.