As Halloween approaches, local police departments are warning about what's known as ‘rainbow’ fentanyl. It's the dangerous opioid make in bright-colored powders and pills, and it's even being transferred in candy containers sometimes.
This has some parents worried about finding it in Halloween candy, but a local expert said that likely won't happen.This has some parents worried about finding it in Halloween candy, but a local expert said that likely won't happen. about the alarming trend, saying the pills were "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 rainbow-colored pills are sometimes being transported in candy containers too. That has police putting out warnings and advising parents to go through their kids' Halloween candy. "I think it's reached the point of hysteria is what it’s reached. And it has definitely gone beyond what the announcement intended to do," said Ciccarone.
He said the color of the pills is just a marketing strategy by the cartels, and has little to do with exposing kids. And the candy packages are just a way to transport the drugs.