(The Center Square) – The illicit fentanyl coming from Mexican cartels is becoming more dangerous, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
The purity level of illicit fentanyl in the U.S. drug market has increased and the amount of fentanyl found in counterfeit prescription pills has increased, making the nation’s top drug threat even more dangerous, according to the DEA’s most recent National Drug Threat Assessment.
A lethal dose of the potent opioid is about 2 milligrams, depending on the opioid tolerance of the user.
In 2022, the average fentanyl pill contained 2.4 milligrams of fentanyl, according to analysis by DEA forensic chemists who test random samples of the fentanyl seized in the U.S. Overall, the tested samples ranged from a low of .03 milligrams to a high of 9 milligrams.
“DEA forensic laboratory results documented that approximately 7 out of 10 fake pills contain a deadly dose of fentanyl,” according to the report.
That’s up from 4 in 10 pills in 2021.
The purity of powdered fentanyl has increased. The average purity of the fentanyl powder samples was 19.2% in 2022, a 33% increase since 2021. The overall tested samples ranged from almost no fentanyl to 81.5% pure fentanyl.
Those numbers underscore the threat the drug poses to users, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said. She blamed the growing illicit fentanyl problem on two Mexican drug cartels making synthetic drugs with precursor chemicals from China.
“At the heart of the synthetic drug crisis are the Sinaloa and Jalisco cartels and their associates,” Milgram said in a statement.
Illicit fentanyl killed nearly 38,000 Americans in the first six months of 2023, according to the DEA report. Synthetic opioids were involved in 74,225 deaths in 2022 – 68% of the total 111,036 deaths that year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“These two Cartels are global criminal enterprises that have developed global supply chain networks. They rely on chemical companies and pill press companies in China to supply the precursor chemicals and pill presses needed to manufacture the drugs,” Milgram wrote in a letter released with the assessment. “They operate clandestine labs in Mexico where they manufacture these drugs, and then utilize their vast distribution networks to transport the drugs into the United States.”
Fentanyl is to Joe and the Democrats, what bullets and beheadings are to Hamas. Just sneak them into the country when nobody is looking and let them kill off your opponent votes by the thousands, leaving insecurity and fear in their wake, and they and their party the only imagined sanctuary from the very criminal activities they breed and promote. They really need to be given a dose of their own medicine, starting with a fentanyl laced drug sniffing Hunter, on down to the least minion in their money laundered drug enabling cartels of communist incomers. Just follow the money and witness the death and destruction that follows THEM wherever they go. The very American weak, confused and misguided who they create to be more weak, confused and misguided are the very targeted victims they turn into the useful idiots who vote for them into power.
IMO its getting to the poont, we need to LOCATE every damn lab in mexico, where the precursors, are then combined, AND DESTROY THEM.
THEN START SINKING all the ships from china, BRINGING IN the precursors.
Jump to essay-1See U.S. Const. art. III, § 3 (“Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort.”);
Aiding and abetting an attack on US soil is an Impeachable offense.
Anyone smuggling or selling Fentanyl when apprehended and found guilty needs a Death SENCTENCE administered to them.
Ditto !
like judge dredd
ANYONE drug smuggling, should have every OUNCE OF POISIN They are smuggling, given to them via an IV… ON LIVE TV!
we should load it up on several cargo planes and drop it in bejing.
How’s about make it misty, and air drop it all along the border.