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“In the case of a pill that you buy off the street, people should assume there is fentanyl present even if it is labeled as some other medication,” said Sue. There is no way to know whether a pill or powder contains fentanyl by simply looking at it, and fentanyl has no distinctive taste or smell. How does a person know if they’ve taken fentanyl? If fentanyl is inhaled, consumed or injected it can be deadly, but a person cannot overdose by touching it. “What we’re seeing in the opioid overdose deaths in this country is related to fentanyl that is obtained outside of the context of medical prescriptions, usually on the street.”įentanyl is dangerous because it “depresses” a person’s respiratory function and central nervous system, and can cause a person to stop breathing, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Kimberly Sue, medical director of the National Harm Reduction Coalition and an addiction specialist at Yale University, told ABC News last year. “It is a very good and effective medicine at relieving pain in appropriate quantities managed by anesthesia,” Dr. Developed for the pain management treatment of cancer patients, it is 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine and 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin, according to the DEA. Pharmaceutical fentanyl is used frequently in medical settings. Here are questions about fentanyl and the growing crisis, answered: The announcement comes after several suspected overdoses in the last month, with one juvenile dying at Bernstein High School in Hollywood, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.

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The Los Angeles Unified School District, the nation’s second-largest school district, announced last month that naloxone, a medicine used to reverse the effects of an opioid overdose, would be available at all K-12 schools in the district in the coming weeks, provided for free by the Los Angeles County Department of Public Health. In response to the growing threat and the recent rise in deaths due to fentanyl, school districts in Florida, Texas and California have announced new plans to fight the crisis. “Fentanyl remains the deadliest drug threat facing this country.”Īmid all the recent warnings, statistics about rates of overdoses by so-called rainbow fentanyl are not available yet. “Without laboratory testing, there is no way to know how much fentanyl is concentrated in a pill or powder,” the DEA said. In a warning issued in August, the DEA said that brightly colored fentanyl is being distributed not just in pill form but also “powder, and blocks that resembles sidewalk chalk.”Īccording to the agency, 2 milligrams of fentanyl, the equivalent of 10 to 15 grains of table salt, is “considered a lethal dose.” Most are made in Mexico, with China supplying the chemicals. The pills are often made to resemble real prescription opioid medication like Oxycontin, Vicodin and Xanax, or stimulants like Adderall, according to the DEA. More than 56,000 people died of from overdoses involving synthetic opioids in 2020, an increase of 56% from the previous year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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Illicitly manufactured fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid, is one of the primary drivers of the significant increases in drug overdose deaths in recent years. “We believe it is critically important to educate the public about this new form fentanyl is taking.” “The pills look like candy,” said New York City’s special narcotics prosecutor Bridgette Brennan. “Fentanyl is everywhere and it is on everything,” Tarrentino said, noting some of the pills seized in the car were discovered in a yellow Lego box. The multicolored pills are similar in look to party drugs and meant to be more appealing to young people, according to the DEA’s Frank Tarrentino, who called it “newly packaged poison.” 28 when agents and officers stopped a vehicle on the Manhattan side of the Lincoln Tunnel that contained 15,000 multicolored pill with an estimated street value of $300,000. Drug Enforcement Agency and law enforcement partners announced the first significant seizure of rainbow fentanyl. So-called rainbow fentanyl began showing up on the streets on the West Coast in February and has gradually made its way across the country. (NEW YORK) - Just weeks before Halloween, law enforcement officials are warning about a deadly drug packaged in pills that “look like candy.”

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