Police in Florida has seized enough fentanyl to kill the entire population of Estonia.
On Monday, the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office announced in a tweet that officers had successfully carried out a drug bust that saw the discovery of enough fentanyl to kill 1.5 million adults.
“JSO Narcotics Unit seized 3 kilos of fentanyl, 1.26 kilos of cocaine & over 6,000 counterfeit pills containing fentanyl; enough fentanyl to kill 1.5 MILLION adults,” the Sheriff’s Office tweeted on Monday.
#JSO #Narcotics Unit seized 3 kilos of #fentanyl, 1.26 kilos of #cocaine & over 6,000 #counterfeit pills containing fentanyl; enough fentanyl to #kill 1.5 MILLION adults.#yourJSO #keepingyousafe #toprotectandserve #jaxsheriff #narcoticsarrest #busted #policework #saynotodrugs pic.twitter.com/lTVbQkZj5z
— Jax Sheriff’s Office (@JSOPIO) September 19, 2022
“The announcement comes just days after police in Flagler County, Florida, which is just over 70 miles south of Jacksonville, announced the arrest of a fugitive with enough fentanyl to kill over 100,000 people.”
“Fentanyl has become the largest driver of the U.S. opioid epidemic in recent years, with seizures of the drug spiking nearly 200% at the southern border in July, the highest amount seized in at least four fiscal years,” the report added.
Nearly 75 percent of all drug overdoses in the past year, nearly 80,000, were related to fentanyl.
According to the US Drug Enforcement Administration, fentanyl is a synthetic opioid 50-100 times more powerful than morphine.
“Fentanyl is added to heroin to increase its potency, or to disguise it as high-strength heroin,” the DEA website explains. “Many users think they are buying heroin and don’t actually know they are buying fentanyl – often resulting in overdose deaths. The clandestinely produced fentanyl is made primarily in Mexico.”
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Sources: TheGatewayPundit, FoxNews
