A Florida police division has introduced that they seized sufficient fentanyl to kill 1.5 million individuals throughout a latest drug bust.
The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Workplace introduced the huge drug bust in a tweet on Monday.
“JSO Narcotics Unit seized 3 kilos of fentanyl, 1.26 kilos of cocaine & over 6,000 counterfeit tablets containing fentanyl; sufficient fentanyl to kill 1.5 MILLION adults,” the Sheriff’s Workplace tweeted on Monday.
#JSO #Narcotics Unit seized 3 kilos of #fentanyl, 1.26 kilos of #cocaine & over 6,000 #counterfeit tablets containing fentanyl; sufficient fentanyl to #kill 1.5 MILLION adults.#yourJSO #keepingyousafe #toprotectandserve #jaxsheriff #narcoticsarrest #busted #policework #saynotodrugs pic.twitter.com/lTVbQkZj5z
— Jax Sheriff’s Workplace (@JSOPIO) September 19, 2022
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Fox Information reports that “the announcement comes simply days after police in Flagler County, Florida, which is simply over 70 miles south of Jacksonville, introduced the arrest of a fugitive with sufficient fentanyl to kill over 100,000 individuals.”
“Fentanyl has grow to be the most important driver of the U.S. opioid epidemic in recent times, with seizures of the drug spiking almost 200% on the southern border in July, the best quantity seized in no less than 4 fiscal years,” the report added.
Roughly 75 p.c of all drug overdoses final 12 months, roughly 80,000, have been fentanyl-related.
Based on the US Drug Enforcement Administration, Fentanyl is an artificial opioid that’s 50-100 occasions stronger than morphine.
“Fentanyl is added to heroin to extend its efficiency, or be disguised as extremely potent heroin,” the DEA’s web site explains. “Many customers imagine that they’re buying heroin and truly don’t know that they’re buying fentanyl – which frequently leads to overdose deaths. Clandestinely-produced fentanyl is primarily manufactured in Mexico.”
