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Author: Admin | 2025-04-28
Pills and manufacturing them to look like an Adderall or Xanax, they are targeting our children."A local user admitted he was fooled by the drugs. "I didn't know they were pressed. I swear up and down they were from the pharmacy. But they weren't," the man, who asked to remain anonymous, told Boston 25 News.Agents said the cartels are putting the laced pills in the gas tanks of cars, tractor trailers and within suitcases, plus shipping them through the U.S. Postal Service, according to Boston 25 News. They increasingly end up on the streets of New England, according to the agents.New England has also seen a rise in methamphetamine use. In Concord, New Hampshire, meth now accounts for 60 percent of drug seizures, according to Kaiser Health News. Meanwhile, there was a 142 percent increase in national seizures of meth between 2017 and 2018, National Public Radio reported.Mexican drug cartels are making counterfeit pills designed to mimic prescription ones, and they are often laced with deadly amounts of fentanyl, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. These look-alikes were seized earlier this year....DEA Researchers believe the opioid crisis could have prompted the resurgence in meth use and heroin, which the DEA found was mixed with fentanyl in about 20 percent of 340 fentanyl seizures this year, according to a recent report.The DEA would be better off legalizing fentanyl testing strips and getting behind overdose prevention sites, thereby reducing the harm of drug use, according to Jeremiah Goulka, a researcher and senior
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