The amount of fentanyl that can kill is the amount of fentanyl that can cover Lincoln's nose. It's that tiny, it's that insignificant,” Spitzer said.

Fentanyl was involved in almost two-thirds of those deaths. Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that’s 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine, highly addictive, and deadly.

“My son Kenny died of an accidental overdose of heroin mixed with fentanyl,” Smith told The Epoch Times. “We were told that there was enough fentanyl to kill 10 elephants.”

Illegal imports of fentanyl from Mexico involve Chinese-produced fentanyl or fentanyl precursors coming most often from China.

Texas unveiled a new campaign to raise awareness about fentanyl and to save lives as Texas officials seized enough of the drug to kill everyone in the United States.

–China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC) report published in August, China remains the primary source of illicit fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances being trafficked into the United States, despite the Chinese regime banning fentanyl

According to testimony at trial, Bradley Woolard, the leader of the drug ring, began to buy fentanyl and a fentanyl derivative from China in 2015 and 2016, after learning how to do so on the dark web.

Kaylar Junior Tawan Beltranlap, 21, is charged with a count of distribution of fentanyl resulting in death for allegedly selling the drugs that led to the unidentified teen's May 12 death.

Fentanyl seizures at ports of entry increased 719 percent and methamphetamine was up 781 percent.

Fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that's blamed for an escalating overdose death rate in the United States.

China is the largest source of illicit fentanyl and fentanyl-like substances in the country, according to a 2018 report by the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC).

Federal confiscations of synthetic drugs such as methamphetamine and fentanyl are rising in Mexico, according to data published on Dec. 27 by the Mexican Defense Department.

Sheriff Bill Gore offered a sobering truth: "Fentanyl overdoses are on the rise throughout our county; every day, deputies recover fentanyl in our communities."

Yet fentanyl is not the only synthetic opioid modern science has produced.

"We will continue to leverage every resource to protect our communities from those who would destroy them through the distribution of fentanyl and fentanyl analogues."

Despite the Chinese regime banning fentanyl and its analogs in 2019, China remains the primary source of illicit fentanyl and fentanyl-related substances being trafficked into the United States, according to a new report by a U.S. congressional advisory

VENICE—Comedian Fuquan Johnson and two other people died after apparently overdosing on cocaine laced with fentanyl at a home in Venice, and comedian and model Kate Quigley was in critical condition, according to multiple reports Sept. 5.

A Border Patrol canine sniffed out several packages of fentanyl pills that were hidden inside burritos this week in Arizona, officials said.

trafficking in fentanyl, four grams or more, and conspiracy to traffic in fentanyl.

“We should look at those 53,000 or so Americans who died last year from fentanyl as murdered by the Chinese Communist Party.” Border security intel suggests that all of the fentanyl that’s entering the United States is coming from China.

With the increase in dangerous drugs coming into TX — they’ve apprehended enough fentanyl to kill every person in the state of NY.

“This would have placed fentanyl in the same category as heroin and cocaine" when sold in these areas, Puerta said. The bill also introduced a penalty for illegally selling fentanyl online.

“We can confidently say that the fentanyl that caused the overdose was the same fentanyl that was located in the juvenile’s bedroom,” police said in the release.

The exemption is “one of the most DESPICABLE loopholes in American trade policy” that has been exploited by “Fentanyl Traffickers, Counterfeiters, and other Criminals shipping dangerous and illegal products into America,” he said.

Maltz said that during the Trump administration, “there was some positive movement to prevent the export of pure fentanyl and fentanyl analogs out of China—[but] the Chinese transnational criminals got very smart and started reducing the exports of fentanyl

Fentanyl—the deadly poison that’s flooding American streets and killing more than 200 people a day, including, very often, unsuspecting teenagers. But these four people and their stories are inspiring change, giving hope, and saving lives.

"Fentanyl and other drugs have caused overwhelming devastation to communities across America,” Deputy Treasury Secretary Justin Muzinich said.

Barnes called the current trend of rising fentanyl deaths “unacceptable,” and said the bill will help reverse the trend by holding drug traffickers accountable. “Fentanyl continues to pose a substantial risk to our communities.

According to the Hennepin County Medical Examiner's office (pdf), "fentanyl intoxication" contributed to the 46-year-old Minneapolis man's death.

Mahir Yahya Sharif pleaded guilty to sexual assault and trafficking methamphetamine and fentanyl in 2022, and was sentenced to three years in prison, according to court documents.