Posted on 08/30/2022 8:08:08 PM PDT by Libloather
The DEA has already seized brightly-colored fentanyl in 18 states so far this month, a a new trend the agency says drug traffickers are capitalizing on to drive young people to the deadly drug.
Fentanyl, a powerful opioid up to 50 times stronger than heroin, was responsible for 71,238 of the record 107,000 fatal drug overdoses in the United States last year, according to the CDC.
The new brightly-colored fentanyl – which can come in pills, powder, and blocks that look like sidewalk chalk – is not more potent than the traditional form, but could be more attractive to young people, the DEA says.
"This trend appears to be a new method used by drug cartels to sell highly addictive and potentially deadly fentanyl made to look like candy to children and young people," the DEA said.
Customs and Border Protection officers in Arizona seized 625,000 fentanyl pills in five recent inspections, 12,000 of which were rainbow-colored, according to Michael Humphries, the port director for the Nogales port of entry for U.S. Customs and Border Protection.
Fentanyl is primarily brought across the southern border by two drug trafficking organizations, the Sinaloa Cartel and the Jalisco New Generation Cartel.
The dangerous opioid is also being found by law enforcement far from the border.
West Virginia law enforcement officials executed a search warrant last week in Morgantown and found a "large batch" of pills that were "multi-colored and stamped with M/30 like a conventional oxycodone pill," according to the US Attorney for the Northern District of West Virginia.
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Mabe we need to add drug dealer story hours to elementary schools.
Death now comes in rainbow colors. I wonder if it will be available at the drag queen event that is securely protected by armed ANTIFA? Fun times. Fun times indeed.
I would suggest to let the users have their oxy back.
Of course the US Gov wants them gone so that isn’t going to happen.
not queers???
big guy gets 10% of everything that comes over the border
I really feel for today’s kids. So many evil people/groups are gunning for them, seeking their destruction.
Sent over by the Chinese thru Mexico.
Politicians bought off here in the USA to allow it.
First, they’ll get all of the potheads in your state to legalize pot with their votes, which will inhibit police against busting those who deal the harder stuff. Then, after the drug addled masses vote more radical Democrats into office, they’ll pass gun control in your state to disarm you against the drug dealers.
That’s what’s happened in several states so far. See skyrocketing homelessness and fecal matter on the streets.
After all, “it’s for the children.” Right Hillary?
They should be charged with a hate crime for marketing a deadly drug to homosexuals. /s
That’s what kept me off of heroin in my teens. Boring colors.
[The poor rainbow. First the homos, now the fentanyl. It didn’t do nothin’ to nobody.]
Ronnie James Dio is rolling in his grave in disgust....
DEA is a criminal organization and directly benefits from the drug trade. A trillion dollars wasted on these Nazis and more OD deaths than ever.
Instead of going after prescription opioids, the DEA should have gone after illicit fentanyl. These scumbag have known about China white since the 90s.
FU DEA
Biden would be head hair sniffing fentenayl death flick czar.
They sadly are at war with us..
https://rumble.com/v1hwwaf-swamp-thing-at-mar-a-lago.html
“Whoa, Dude, the Colors!”
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