Jessica Porter is a Denver7 Anchor and Reporter.
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division has seized 2.7 million fentanyl pills so far this year, breaking a record with one month left to go in 2024.Testing reveals five out of every 10 pills contain a fatal dose of fentanyl for a first-time user.Although the DEA is proud of the work it is doing to tackle the fentanyl crisis, agents say these numbers are nothing to celebrate.
Olesky said most of the pills recovered were pressed to look like blue prescription Oxycodone pills.A new concerning trend the agency is seeing is carfentanil, an animal tranquilizer one hundred times more potent than fentanyl. The DEA seized 250,000 pills containing carfentanil on the Western Slope in November.“With carfentanil, it's a synthetic opiate so it's highly addictive, it's potent, but it's also cheap for the cartels to utilize this drug and manufacture.
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