Mexican troops and national guardssaid on Thursdaythat they were more than half "historic". Announced what they called seizure-a ton of fentanil in a warehouse in the northern city of Clearcan.
"This is the biggest attack in the history of this deadly drug," said Ricardo, Secretary-General of Public Security, estimating that the illegal value of fentanil is about $ 230 million.・ Assistant Media said.
Synthetic opioids such as fentanil are behind a significant increase in deaths from overdosein the United States . Only 2 milligrams of fentanil can be fatal. This drug is 100 times more powerful than morphin.
About £ 1,200 found in the warehouse could have produced millions of counterfeit pills that fentanil normally offers. Fentanyl is extremely deadly because it can be pushed into pills made like Xanax, Aderal, and Oxycodon, or mixed with other drugs.
It has led to tens of thousands ofoverdose deathsin the United States because people are often unaware that they are taking fentanil. increase.
However, the purity of the amount found in the warehouse was unknown. Fentanyl is often cleaved with other substances before being squeezed into pills. Almost all fentanil smuggled into the United States comes from Mexico and is produced with the precursor chemicalssmuggled from China.
According to the Department of Defense of Mexico, the warehouse is located in Curiacan, the capital of Sina Loa, and there is a drug cartel of the same name, and 10 people have been arrested.
Soldiers also discovered 0.5 tons of meta and cocaine, achen, and at least 70 tons of precursor chemicals in the July 2 raid.
Last month, a Mexican prosecutor set up an illegal facility with a pill pressused to make fentanil pills in a border town in San Luis Rio, Colorado. Said I found it. Yuma, Arizona.
Fentanyl-contaminated pills seized by law enforcement agencies reportedby CBS News Lirial Ciano between 2018 and 2021.
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