Drug industry, social media helped fuel fentanyl crisis
The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration says that the drug industry bears a lot of the blame for starting the nation's fentanyl crisis. Social media is making the situation worse.
The head of the Drug Enforcement Administration says that the drug industry bears a lot of the blame for starting the nation's fentanyl crisis. Social media is making the situation worse.
Mexican cartels are flooding the U.S. with fentanyl and are to blame for tens of thousands of American deaths last year, DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said. The U.S. is "losing a generation" to the drug.
Following the arrests last week in connection with Matthew Perry's death from a ketamine overdose, DEA administrator Anne Milgram on "Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan" compares ketamine abuse to the beginning of the opioid epidemic, and says the DEA is targeting doctors and practitioners "who are violating this duty of trust to their patients by over-prescribing medicine, or prescribing medicine that isn't necessary."
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The Drug Enforcement Administration says it seized over 79 million fake pills containing fentanyl in 2023, a more than 33% increase from the year before. To combat the crisis, officials are cracking down on drug traffickers by targeting online retailers selling pill presses. CBS News homeland security and justice reporter Nicole Sganga explains.
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In its battle against the fentanyl epidemic, the DEA is intensifying crackdowns on pill press usage, crucial in the illicit production of fentanyl-laced pills. The agency is now putting e-commerce platforms on notice to regulate sales under existing laws to avoid facing legal action.
Federal law enforcement officials are cracking down on pill presses, which drug traffickers can purchase online and use to pump out thousands of fentanyl pills an hour. Nicole Sganga takes an inside look at the efforts to seize these machines and prevent their sale.
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Xylazine, a sedative approved for animals, is increasingly being found mixed with fentanyl, authorities said.
Mexican cartels have used the border city to press fentanyl into counterfeit pills. They then smuggle those pills into the U.S.
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The Drug Enforcement Administration said it seized in 2022 more than 379 million doses of fentanyl, which officials said is enough to kill every American. The agency reported this week that it confiscated over 50 million fake prescription pills laced with fentanyl and more than 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder this year. Regina LaBelle, director of the Addiction and Public Policy Initiative at the O'Neill Institute at Georgetown University, joined CBS News to discuss.
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