Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report More than 150 Americans die every day after using the synthetic opioid, or fentanyl. What’s even more worrying is that many of the victims are young people who don’t even know they’re taking the drug.
Recent report The Free Press detailed how children and young people are being addicted to fake pills and powdered versions of other drugs laced with fentanyl by dealers “to increase their profits.”
“These fake pills look identical to real pills such as Xanax, Adderall, OxyContin, and Percocet,” the publication revealed. “Fentanyl cannot be seen, smelled, or tasted. [Drug Enforcement Agency] Agents cannot tell the difference between real and fake. ”
This issue does not differentiate between race, gender, or socio-economic status.
The 19-year-old son of former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki and Google executive Dennis Troper was found dead of a suspected fentanyl overdose at the University of California, Berkeley.
Marco Troper was found dead on February 13th after ingesting an unknown drug. USA Today report. Although the toxicology report is not yet complete, his family alerted the media about the fentanyl.
“We don’t know what was inside,” said his grandmother, Esther Wojcicki. Said of Palo Alto Daily Post. “Teenagers and college students need to know that today’s drugs are not the same as yesterday’s drugs. They are often laced with fentanyl.”
Approximately 22 children die each week in the United States from drug overdoses, and 80% of those deaths are related to fentanyl, the Free Press reports.
“While illicit drug use among middle and high school students is on the decline, fatal overdoses among teens are at an all-time high,” the publication found.
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The DEA “seized more than 77 million fentanyl pills” in 2023, the most ever in a single year. The agency believes most of this is due to drug cartels that produce cheap drugs for maximum profit, even at the cost of killing consumers.
“It costs cartels as little as 10 cents to produce counterfeit prescription drugs laced with fentanyl, which are sold in the United States for between $10 and $30 per pill,” said DEA Administrator Ann Milgram. Said Cin progress “Cartels are making billions of dollars trafficking fentanyl into the United States.”
new Book Breitbart News senior contributor Peter Schweitzer reveals how the Chinese government is also involved in America’s fentanyl epidemic.
Blood Money: Why those in power turn a blind eye while China kills AmericansScheduled to be published on Tuesday, it documents how the Chinese Communist Party uses drugs, social disruption and other tools. tear up social structure American
Schweitzer, 7 times new york times A best-selling author whose previous books sparked an FBI investigation and led to the resignation of a member of Congress, he is also the director of the Government Accountability Institute.
a new york post preview Enter the next part of Schweitzer’s book detail How “most of the pharmaceutical ingredients needed to make the synthetic cocktail known as fentanyl are produced in China.”
“Chinese triads began building relationships with Mexican drug cartels and quickly became business partners,” the authors write.
