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Federal drug agents seized enough fentanyl in 2022 to kill every American: 379million potentially fatal doses in 12 months
 [Daily Mail, where America gets its news] - The Drug Enforcement Agency said it seized 50.6million fake prescription pills
- Fentanyl is cheap and easy to produce so is a big player in illegal drugs market
- Potentially fatal dose is just 2mg and caused over 100,000 deaths in US last year
- Cheap and easy to make, fentanyl replaced prescription opioids and heroin in the illegal drugs market
The DEA said the primary sources of fentanyl in the United States are the Sinaloa and Jalisco Mexican drug cartels.
Their fentanyl is manufactured in Mexico with chemicals 'largely sourced in China,' according to the DEA.
Some of it is distributed widely in the form of counterfeit prescription drugs like Percocet, OxyContin and Xanax, they said.
Some 60 percent of the counterfeit drugs laced with fentanyl that were tested by the DEA contained potentially lethal fentanyl doses, it said.
Posted by: Skidmark 2022-12-23 |
