The colorful narcotics were seized by the Drug Enforcement Administration in 18 different states this month alone.
that can be up to 100 times stronger than morphine, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the DEA.
The CDC estimates that in 2021, more than 107,000 Americans died of drug overdoses. Approximately 66% of those deaths were related to synthetic opioids like fentanyl. "Fentanyl poisonings are at an all-time high," Minnehaha County Sheriff Mike Milstead, the South Dakota chair of the Drug Enforcement Committee, said in a statement. "These are not isolated incidents. These are happening in every state and every county in America, leaving behind grieving families."
The DEA said it has been working diligently to trace mass-overdose events back to local drug trafficking organizations and international cartels responsible for the surging domestic supply of fentanyl.
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