Deadly Contraband
12/29/22
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from TPPF,
12/29/22:
What to know: Law enforcement seized a record amount of the deadly drug fentanyl in 2022.
The TPPF take: One thing that makes fentanyl so deadly is that it can be disguised and sold as other, more common drugs, such as Xanax and Percocet.
“Fentanyl-laced counterfeit pills have helped drive the number of teenage fentanyl-related overdose deaths rapidly upwards from 253 in 2019, to 680 in 2020, and 884 in 2021,” says TPPF’s Lars Trautman. “Within these numbers is a parade of heart-wrenching stories of loss, such as a 14-year-old found unresponsive in his bed by his mom, dying a short time later after consuming a single fake Oxycontin pill; and there is the 15-year-old killed at her high school by a counterfeit Percocet.”
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