According to the DEA, bright-colored fentanyl pills designed to hook children have been spotted in nearly two dozen states. | via NPR
In August 2022, the Drug Enforcement Administration and law enforcement partners seized brightly colored rainbow fentanyl pills in 18 states.
"I don't see any evidence that the DEA has produced that supports that conjecture," said Nabarun Dasgupta, a researcher studying illegal drugs at the University of North Carolina. Indeed, street drug experts contacted by NPR say traffickers have long used bright colors in their products for reasons that have nothing to do with children.
But the DEA alert acknowledges the pills appear to have been concealed in the toy box not to attract young people, but as a smuggling tactic meant"to deter law enforcement attention."Drug experts contacted by NPR also questioned whether traffickers, who are driven by profit, would focus on kids.risky. The drug is potent and deadly, and the legal penalties for dealing drugs to kids are severe.
On background, DEA officials said their investigations show traffickers are targeting young people in part by using social media, but they declined to offer specifics. "Fentanyl's a very potent drug that's causing a lot of overdose death but it's taken on a mythical life of its own," he said.
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