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Fentanyl now coming across the border looking like prescription medicine
American Thinker ^ | 08/20/2024 | Olivia Murray

Posted on 08/20/2024 8:10:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

Anne Milgram, a former New Jersey attorney general and current Administrator at the Drug Enforcement Agency, went on CBS’s “Face the Nation” yesterday, revealing that “for the first time,” transnational drug cartels, namely the Sinaloa and Jalisco syndicates, were trafficking fentanyl under the guise of prescription medication. Per Milgram, via a report at Newsmax:

‘[F]or the first time, the cartels are hiding fentanyl in other drugs.

‘They’re making them look like real prescription medicines, which are all fentanyl and filler. And so this is just a dramatically changed landscape that we’ve now pivoted to address and take head on.

‘[T]his is the cheapest drug we have ever faced. And the only limit on the amount of drugs that can be made are the chemicals that are being sourced by the cartels from China and essentially the reproduction, which again, costs pennies for these two cartels to make,’ she said.

Milgram’s revelation comes on the heels of the news that the state of California recently seized “2.2 million illicit cannabis packages” all with a forged state seal, and marketed in packaging that “resembled popular food and candy brands that could appeal to children,” like Twinkies and Sweet Tarts; according to the press release from Gavin Newsom’s office, the seizure is part of a mission to “deprive … transnational criminal organizations of illicit revenue” like those south of the border and beyond. For reference, much of the illicit imported marijuana in the U.S. comes from Mexico, and “Chinese criminal networks” are often behind illicit domestic growers.

Too bad we’ve got Chinese Communist Party friendlies in the White House instead of our tough-on-China guy!


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TOPICS: China; Crime/Corruption; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: drugs; fentanyl; narcotics; prescription; smuggling

1 posted on 08/20/2024 8:10:14 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

There are a number of ways to detect counterfeit pharmaceuticals.

One is by using watermarks.

Another is by using combinations of invisible ink that can vary by lot.

Another is through use of combinations of radiotracers that can also vary by lot.

This is standard practice for medical packaging (see my username).


2 posted on 08/20/2024 8:17:10 AM PDT by packagingguy
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To: SeekAndFind

Daisycutter all factories in Mexican territories, as well as the same (maybe tactical nuke ) all cartel territories. And tell that alterkakergonifshonda sheinbaum that she is one CIA Asset away from a hole in the head. And then call out Winnie the Pooh for his part. While this is going on send in the national guard to indiscriminately ventilate cartel members in the us and inject prisoners in jails and prisons with a super fatal hot dose of the shit they give stupid Americans.


3 posted on 08/20/2024 8:17:55 AM PDT by Captainpaintball (America needs a Conservative DICTATOR if it hopes to survive. )
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To: SeekAndFind

10% for the big guy


4 posted on 08/20/2024 8:22:16 AM PDT by BigFreakinToad (Remember the Biden Kitchen Fire of 2004)
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To: SeekAndFind

You would think that as deadly as this stuff is and immediate acting and the strongest opioid ever made and is being brought into the country by every 12 year old orphan at the border and in semi trucks that use the “fentanyl” lane for convenience, Why arent we all dead by now?


5 posted on 08/20/2024 8:29:31 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: packagingguy

You are probably very helpful around the holiday season for mailing gifts and such.


6 posted on 08/20/2024 8:30:50 AM PDT by Delta 21 (If anyone is treasonous, it is those who call me such.)
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To: Delta 21

“Why arent we all dead by now?”

Because we’re not street junkies.

The whole ‘opoid crisis’ that the media loves reporting about is basically limited to addicts who buy their opiates on the streets. Deaths from legal, doctor prescribed opiates happen, but they’re a small part of overall overdose deaths.


7 posted on 08/20/2024 8:36:53 AM PDT by Roadrunner383
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To: SeekAndFind

So, you only buy your prescription drugs from pharmacies, not from mail order outfits that pose as pharmacies.

Those who choose to abuse drugs risk death, and they know it. So no sympathy here when they kill themselves. Helps to weed out the undesirables.


8 posted on 08/20/2024 9:52:16 AM PDT by JimRed (TERM LIMITS, NOW! Finish the damned WALL! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH! )
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To: JimRed

Its more than likely that disguised fentanyl is only for getting it across the border. Not to end up in retail locations and shelves,


9 posted on 08/20/2024 10:09:34 AM PDT by RBStealth (-- raised by wolves, educated by nuns)
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To: RBStealth

Rule #1 - NEVER take drugs from strangers, and don’t take drugs friends offer you to “help”.

If you don’t start, you won’t get addicted and die a horrible death!


10 posted on 08/20/2024 10:28:45 AM PDT by princess leah ( )
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To: princess leah

thank you I needed that


11 posted on 08/20/2024 10:30:40 AM PDT by RBStealth (-- raised by wolves, educated by nuns)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Mexican national biatches are our friends.


12 posted on 08/20/2024 10:34:17 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Banana Voo Doo Queen is putting illegal scumbags on a Free Ride on the American Dream Express.)
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To: SeekAndFind
Milgram’s revelation comes on the heels of the news that the state of California recently seized “2.2 million illicit cannabis packages” all with a forged state seal, and marketed in packaging that “resembled popular food and candy brands that could appeal to children,” like Twinkies and Sweet Tarts;

I'm glad I don't eat Twinkies or Sweet Tarts.

Is this murder?

13 posted on 08/20/2024 10:38:18 AM PDT by gitmo (If your theology doesn’t become your biography, what good is it?)
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To: SeekAndFind

If they won’t obey keep them drugged.

Page 3 democrat hand book


14 posted on 08/20/2024 11:54:00 AM PDT by Vaduz
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To: Roadrunner383

In 2021, over 107,000 Americans died of overdoses⁠—the highest total ever recorded.

Some 71,000 were from fentanyl . . . sourced from China.


15 posted on 08/20/2024 2:23:36 PM PDT by Jacquerie (ArticleVBlog.com)
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To: Delta 21

There’s stuff 20 times as potent as fentanyl now...

https://www.healthline.com/health-news/new-opioids-called-nitazenes-may-be-20-times-stronger-than-fentanyl

Ain’t science great!?


16 posted on 08/21/2024 5:54:43 AM PDT by Moltke (Reasoning with a liberal is like watering a rock in the hope to grow a building.)
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