I count EIGHT TIMES that the word FENTANYL is mentioned in this pretty short press release by the DEA. AND NOT ONCE do they state that they are talking about ILLEGAL/ILLICIT Fentanyl analogs. That could contain not only an illegal Fentanyl analog but could also contain various other drugs, a couple of veterinarian meds, illegal Cocaine, Methamphetamine, Marijuana, etc, etc. If they are showing illegal Fentanyl tablets that they confiscated – there is no Fentanyl tablets produced by our legal Pharmaceutical companies and so any/all substances that is claimed to be a Fentanyl product, could contain a cornucopia of various illegal drugs.
Also, I have read that all the illegal drugs that the DOJ/DEA confiscate, is only 12%-15% of what actually gets to our streets and the number of people lives they claimed that they have saved by confiscating all the illegal drugs they did. You can multiply that number by 7 to 8 as the potential real numbers of people that could get poisoned/OD’s by what got to our streets.
The DEA has been fighting the WAR ON DRUGS since 1973, and the real numbers seem to be that they have successfully denied more chronic pain pts from getting their necessary medications, than the number of illegal drugs that are killing our fellow citizen on our streets.
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And yet for some years, deaths attributed to illicit fentanyl were counted as prescription opioid deaths, on the logic that there’s such a thing as prescription fentanyl.
smh