The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration Wednesday that its staff seized more than 50 million fake prescription pills tainted with fentanyl last year, which is 150% leap from theIn Ohio, Michigan and Northern Kentucky alone, DEA agents seized more than a quarter-million counterfeit pills containing fentanyl. The fake pills, manufactured largely in Mexico, are the newest and deadliest threat to people who use drugs, experts say.
Synan, a coordinator with the Hamilton County Addiction Response Coalition in Ohio, is nationally and locally recognized as an expert in the opioid epidemic and an advocate of healthcare instead of punishments such as jail for people with substance use disorder. Hamilton County Crime Laboratory alone had seen a 99% jump in the pills from a variety of law enforcement agencies from 2020 to 2021, and police from Cincinnati, Evendale, Lockland, Butler County sheriff's and other departments submitted the pills along with the area's DEA agents.The pills are especially dangerous to kids who often buy them on Snapchat and other social media sites, DEA officials say, and sometimes discuss their dealings with pills in code, with texted emojis.
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