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(COLORADO) — Colorado has officially surpassed the previous record set in the state for fentanyl pills seized, totaling 2.7 million “fake pills” confiscated so far in 2024, according to the ...
(The Center Square) – The Drug Enforcement Administration's Rocky Mountain Field Division (RMFD) recently announced that it has seized about 2.7 million fentanyl pills in Colorado in the first ...
Figures for the first half of 2024 show that Mexican federal forces seized only 286 pounds (130 kilograms) of fentanyl nationwide between January and June, down 94% from the 5,135 pounds (2,329 ...
Since Jan. 1, 2024, the Special Investigations Unit has seized 91 illegal firearms and recovered more than 882 grams of fentanyl, 165 grams of heroin, 2,030 grams of meth and 796 grams of crack ...
Between May 2023 and January 2024, law enforcement in the city seized 145 pounds of fentanyl. [9] In early 2024, the California Highway Patrol recovered 42 pounds of fentanyl within a ten-mile radius of the Tenderloin neighborhood in San Francisco. In the same period, the CHP issued more than 6,000 drug-related citations, leading to nearly 500 ...
While overdoes involving fentanyl in the United States have decreased in 2024, the overall percentage of overdoes involving fentanyl has remained stable between 70% and 80% from 2021-2024. [100] According to a 2023 report from the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) based in Vienna , the increased numbers of deaths are not related ...
3 waves of opioid overdose deaths. US timeline. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention describe the U.S. opioid epidemic as having arrived in three waves. [7] However, recent research indicates that since 2016, the United States has been experiencing the fourth wave of the opioid epidemic.
The report says Mexican seizures of illicit fentanyl rose 1.24 tons in 2020 to 1.85 tons in 2023. ... “approximately 96 percent of all fentanyl seized by CBP originated in Mexico, with only 270 ...