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DEA sounds alarm over fake pills containing fentanyl driving overdose deaths
KTLA ^ | Sep 27, 2022 | LINDSAY WHITEHURST

Posted on 09/27/2022 7:52:20 PM PDT by artichokegrower

An increasing number of fake prescription pills that contain potentially deadly fentanyl are helping drive overdose death rates to record levels in the U.S., including some now manufactured in rainbow colors designed to look like candy, federal officials said Tuesday.

Drug Enforcement Administration agents are working to crack down on violent drug cartels in Mexico believed to be trafficking the drugs into the U.S., Attorney General Merrick Garland said. Between May and September, the DEA and local police around the country seized more than 10 million fentanyl pills and hundreds of pounds of powder, he said.

(Excerpt) Read more at ktla.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Mexico; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: buildthefence; cartels; fentanyl; gregabbott; mexico; quitusingdrugsforfun; texas
Get your @ss down to the border
1 posted on 09/27/2022 7:52:20 PM PDT by artichokegrower
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To: artichokegrower

Open Borders Biden killing Americans.


2 posted on 09/27/2022 7:53:39 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Who was Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: artichokegrower

Maybe the DEA can appoint a panel of experts to look into the ‘root cause’ of this drug smuggling problem. Then they can work on ‘comprehensive drug smuggling reform’. Hey, it works for immigration.


3 posted on 09/27/2022 7:56:46 PM PDT by NurdlyPeon (It is the nature of liberals to pervert whatever they touch.)
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To: artichokegrower

Did KJP plead with the cartels for fairness? /s


4 posted on 09/27/2022 7:57:47 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: artichokegrower

Did KJP plead with the cartels for fairness? /s


5 posted on 09/27/2022 7:59:16 PM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: artichokegrower

I knew this was gonna be used to kill Americans. Mfers all of them including our own gd colluders.


6 posted on 09/27/2022 8:01:53 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: artichokegrower

I would be extremely careful this Halloween.

Watch everything you drink.


7 posted on 09/27/2022 8:02:56 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: artichokegrower

This is originally a LINDSAY WHITEHURST, Associated Press article. She never once mentions the root case of the problem because that would be against her leftist cause. So the wide open border is killing thousands of Americans but, hey, turning the USA into a Communist utopia is more important.


8 posted on 09/27/2022 8:03:07 PM PDT by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.)
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To: artichokegrower

If I were a drug dealer in fentanyl I would have precise dosing information with my pills. It is just a little piece of paper. A dead customer is not a repeat customer.

This is not happening. Why is this not happening? It comes from China and is really just an assault on us by design.


9 posted on 09/27/2022 8:04:29 PM PDT by cpdiii
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To: All; artichokegrower

Fake fentanyl pills?!? That is so 2021! The new thing on the block is “Tranq” which can cause your flesh to decompose! (”Xylazine”/large animal tranquilizer):

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2022/09/23/dangerous-animal-tranquilizer-xylazine-michigan-street-drugs-fentanyl-opioids-heroin/65470726007/

https://www.southjerseyrecovery.com/news/xylazine-drug-abuse-in-philadelphia/


10 posted on 09/27/2022 8:11:44 PM PDT by Drago
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Foolish people are apparently going to die by the millions.

Xi Darwin rules!


11 posted on 09/27/2022 8:15:28 PM PDT by Uncle Miltie (Who was Ashli Babbitt?)
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To: willk

She had a different article picked up by KTLA yesterday. Same deal then. I only remember it because I thought, “do people in LA connect the dots to the border invasion or is everyone in LA as eff’n stupid as Newsom?”


12 posted on 09/27/2022 8:27:45 PM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: Uncle Miltie

Stupid American recreational drug users killing themselves.


13 posted on 09/28/2022 3:43:42 AM PDT by ronniesgal (Just GET A JOB already. )
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To: Uncle Miltie

Just one more way to kill the opposition


14 posted on 09/28/2022 3:52:49 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ConservativeInPA

“do people in LA connect the dots to the border invasion or is everyone in LA as eff’n stupid as Newsom?””

Unless people watch a few shows on Fox news or read from websites such as FreeRepublic, they do not even realize that there is an invasion at our southern border. The disinformation media is hiding the invasion just like they hid Biden all during his “campaign”.


15 posted on 09/28/2022 4:09:05 AM PDT by Freee-dame
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To: cpdiii

They’re made by scumbags in Mexico and shipped here by the hundreds of thousands. God knows what formula the pill maker is using but certainly doesn’t care of an American does, they’ll be others. A street level dealer has no control of what he is selling. He either sells it or doesn’t.


16 posted on 09/28/2022 4:19:30 AM PDT by MrRelevant
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To: Freee-dame
Unless people watch a few shows on Fox news or read from websites such as FreeRepublic, they do not even realize

I suppose that’s the same everywhere, although I suppose some hardcore leftists watch/monitor right of wing news sources but think that everything said is a lie. Sort of like here, there’s always posts from leftist media sources.

17 posted on 09/28/2022 5:41:37 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA ( Scratch a leftist and you'll find a fascist )
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To: artichokegrower

Been going on for over a year. Guess someone important finally died.


18 posted on 09/28/2022 5:42:16 AM PDT by Pollard (Worm Free PureBlood)
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If the guy thought he was taking a Percocet or an Oxycodone, or that he was eating Skittles candy, THEN IT WAS NOT A DRUG OVERDOSE! It is then a case of INTENTIONAL POISONING! 300+ are poisoned every day, while Benedict Biden cruelly replaces the dead Americans with ILLEGAL ALIENS!!


19 posted on 10/07/2022 2:51:29 PM PDT by 2harddrive (FREE 3D-printable Firearm blueprints available here: https://drive.google.com/drive/mobile/folders/)
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