It Started In A Lab As A Gift To Medicine

Now It Hides In Almost Everything

Two Milligrams Can End A Life

You Cannot See It Or Smell It Or Taste It

The Pill Looks Exactly Like The Real Thing

Most People Never Know They Took It

This Is The Deadliest Chapter

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Illicit Fentanyl Is Cheap To Make And Extremely Potent

Traffickers Began Mixing It Into Heroin And Other Drugs

Then Pressing It Into Counterfeit Pills

These Fake Pills Look Exactly Like Real Prescription Medications

Oxycodone Or Xanax On The Outside And Fentanyl On The Inside

The Amount Inside Is Never The Same Twice

People Often Have No Idea They Are Taking Fentanyl At All

You Cannot See It Or Smell It Or Taste It In A Drug

One Small Mistake In A Batch Becomes A Fatal Dose

Here Is Where The Scale Becomes Real

Fentanyl Does Not Need Much To Kill

The Numbers Tell The Rest

6 IN 10 ☤ In Two Thousand Twenty Two DEA Testing Found Six Of Every Ten Fake Pills Carried A Potentially Lethal Dose Up From Four In Ten A Year Earlier (DEA)

0.02 TO 5.1 MG ☤ DEA Found Counterfeit Tablets That Ranged Widely In How Much Fentanyl Each One Held (DEA)

YEAR 2022 ☤ About Seventy Three Thousand US Overdose Deaths Involved Synthetic Opioids Primarily Illicit Fentanyl (CDC)

YEAR 2023 ☤That Number Fell Slightly To About Seventy Two Thousand The First Annual Decline Since Twenty Eighteen (CDC)

ABOUT 69 PERCENT ☤ In Two Thousand Twenty Three Roughly Seven In Ten US Overdose Deaths Involved Synthetic Opioids (CDC)

THE MECHANISM ☤ Respiratory Depression Is What Actually Ends It As Breathing Slows Until It Stops

Fentanyl Is Now The Driving Force Of The Overdose Crisis

What Makes It So Deadly Is How Little It Takes

It Is Invisible In The Supply And Lethal In Tiny Amounts

There Is One Real Counter To It

Naloxone Sold As Narcan Can Rapidly Reverse An Opioid Overdose

It Attaches To The Same Receptors And Knocks Fentanyl Right Off Them

Breathing Comes Back And That Is Why Access Has Spread So Wide

The Twenty Twenty Three Dip Is Real But The Numbers Stay Staggering

This Remains The Deadliest Drug Epidemic In American History

Fentanyl Was Engineered To Be A Precise Gift To Medicine

In The Wrong Hands It Became The Most Efficient Killer The Supply Has Ever Seen

The Same Potency That Made It A Miracle In The Operating Room Makes It Lethal On The Street

Across This Series Fentanyl Wore Two Faces

A Surgeon Tool And A Street Poison

Power Was Never The Same As Safety