In the ugly history of illicit drugs, no drug is more deadly than fentanyl, not cocaine,

not meth, not heroin.

Every day, fentanyl kills over 200 Americans, rich, poor, black, white, old, young, especially

young.

Fentanyl is a cheap synthetic opioid that is incredibly dangerous

for two reasons. First, it's 50 times stronger than heroin. Just a sugar packets worth of

fentanyl would kill over 500 people. Second, fentanyl is used to create counterfeit versions of

popular prescription drugs.

These fake pills look identical to the real ones, Xanax, Adderall, OxyContin, Percocet, and others.

You can't see, smell, or taste the difference.

Even agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA can't tell the difference between the real

pill and a counterfeit one. Fentanol isn't just deadly poison. It's deadly poison in disguise,

and most kids who die from it had no idea they were even taking it. 13-year-old Luke

Emanuel is one of those kids. In August 2020, Luca went on Snapchat,

a social media app popular for drug sales because messages are anonymous and instantly disappear.

He bought what he thought was a percassette from a dealer. Hours later, Luca was found dead

in his bedroom for fentanyl poisoning. His mom, Amanda,

said that it was no Percocet. It wasn't even mixed with Percocet. He only had fentanyl in his system.

Amanda still can't believe that her son is gone. The last time I held my son was in a body bag.

Tasha Edwards knows Amanda's pain. Her daughter, Brianna,

18, had just graduated from high school. To celebrate, she went to a weekend party with friends.

When Tasha hadn't heard from her for more than 12 hours, she got frantic. She asked her eldest

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