Fentanyl Awareness Day

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is approximately 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine. Drug traffickers are increasingly mixing fentanyl with other illicit drugs to drive addiction and create repeat business. Many victims of fentanyl poisoning were unaware they ingested fentanyl.

According to the CDC, an estimated 110,511 people in the United States died of drug #overdoses and poisonings in 2022, with almost 70 percent of those deaths involving synthetic opioids like #fentanyl. Only two milligrams of fentanyl is considered a potentially lethal dose.

“Fentanyl is the single deadliest drug threat our nation has ever encountered. Fentanyl is everywhere. From large metropolitan areas to rural America, no community is safe from this poison.” – DEA Administrator Anne Milgram

Learn more at: https://www.dea.gov/fentanylawareness