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The DEA has found pill presses, punches and other substances that can be used to make fake pills containing fentanyl are being offered for sale on various platforms. In 2023, the DEA seized over ...
It’s not just border cities that have seen deaths and overdoses from fentanyl-tainted pills bought in Mexican pharmacies. The 2019 case that wound up on the DEA’s radar stemmed from a purchase ...
In fact, the DEA was concerned enough that agents called Bob and Mary Harrell. According to the couple, DEA investigators met with them repeatedly, sifted through texts on their son’s phone and ...
In November 2016, the DEA uncovered an operation making counterfeit oxycodone and Xanax from a home in Cottonwood Heights, Utah. They found about 70,000 pills in the appearance of oxycodone and more than 25,000 in the appearance of Xanax. The DEA reported that millions of pills could have been distributed from this location over the course of time.
These illicit pills often contain "a mix of amphetamines, caffeine and various fillers", [24] which are sometimes referred to as "captagon" (with a lowercase "c"). [24] Fenethylline is a popular drug in Western Asia, and American media outlet CNN reported in 2015 that it is allegedly used by militant groups in Syria. [25]
"We need to ring the alarm bells," said the mom of a teen who died after unknowingly buying a fentanyl-laced pill via social media. Fake 'prescription' pills sold to teens, others may contain ...
The System to Retrieve Information from Drug Evidence (STRIDE) is a United States Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) program consisting of six subsystems providing information on drug intelligence, statistics on markings found on pills and capsules, drug inventory, tracking, statistical information on drugs removed from the marketplace, utilization of laboratory manpower and information on ...
According to the DEA, the pills are designed to closely resemble genuine prescription medications such as OxyContin, Percocet and Xanax. The CDC estimates that over 105,000 people died in the U.S ...