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The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration issued its first public safety alert in six years in September to warn Americans about counterfeit pills containing lethal doses of fentanyl being produced in Mexico and flooding the U.S. market.
“Opioids were responsible for nearly three quarters of the more than 93,000 fatal drug overdoses in the United States in 2020,” said Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco, announcing the results of a two-month, nationwide DEA enforcement effort to combat cartel-orchestrated drug distribution networks flooding U.S. with the deadly fake pills.
The fake pills made by cartels “are more lethal than ever,” the DEA said. According to DEA laboratory testing, four out of 10 fentanyl-laced fake pills contain a potentially lethal dose. A lethal dose is two milligrams, small enough to fit on the tip of a pencil.
The number of fake pills containing fentanyl has jumped nearly 430% since 2019, the DEA reported.
DEA agents have confiscated more than 9.5 million of the fentanyl-laced pills so far, this year, more than the last two years combined, according to the agency.
Fentanyl is imported in its pure state from China primarily into the Mexican ports of Lazaro Cardenas, Manzanillo or Mazatlan. Once in Mexico, fake prescription pills are made out of individual’s kitchens and transported through a well-orchestrated cartel network into the U.S.
Known in Mexico as “Mexican Oxy” or “M30s” on the streets because on each side of the pill is stamped a “30” and “M,” many pills are dyed blue to look like real prescription pills to take advantage of the opioid crisis in the U.S.
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Once in the U.S., the fake prescription pills are often sold on social media and e-commerce platforms, making them available to anyone with a smartphone, including minors, the DEA reports.
“The United States is facing an unprecedented crisis of overdose deaths fueled by illegally manufactured fentanyl and methamphetamine,” said Anne Milgram, Administrator of the DEA.Despite then-candidate Joe Biden’s 2020 campaign pledge to “End the Opioid Crisis” — promising to fund prevention and treatment services, hold pharmaceutical companies accountable, and stop the ” flow of illicit drugs like fentanyl, especially from China and Mexico” — […]
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