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🗓️ 12 August 2024
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0:00.0 | In the ugly history of illicit drugs, no drug is more deadly than fentanyl. |
0:07.0 | Not cocaine, not meth, not heroin. |
0:11.0 | Every day, fentanyl kills over 200 Americans, rich, poor, black, white, old, young, |
0:18.4 | especially young. |
0:20.0 | fentanyl is a cheap synthetic opioid that is incredibly dangerous for two reasons. |
0:25.2 | First, it's 50 times stronger than heroin. |
0:28.0 | Just a sugar packet's worth of fentanyl would kill over 500 people. Second, fentanyl is used to create counterfeit versions of popular |
0:36.7 | prescription drugs. These fake pills look identical to the real ones, Xanax, Adderall, Oxy Cotton, Percocet and others. |
0:45.6 | You can't see, smell, or taste the difference. |
0:49.5 | Even agents from the Drug Enforcement Administration, the DEA, can't tell the difference |
0:54.4 | between the real pill and a counterfeit one. Fentanyl isn't just deadly poison, it's |
1:00.4 | deadly poison in disguise and most kids who die from it had no idea they were even taking it |
1:07.3 | 13 year old Luke Emanuel is one of those kids in August 2020. |
1:11.8 | Luca went on Snapchat, a social media app popular for drug sales |
1:16.0 | because messages are anonymous and instantly disappear. |
1:19.0 | He bought what he thought was a percocetet from a dealer. |
1:22.0 | Hours later, Luca was found dead in his bedroom for fentanyl poisoning. |
1:28.0 | His mom, Amanda, said that it was no percocet, it wasn't even mixed with Percocet. He only had fentanyl in his system. |
1:36.0 | 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 |
1:47.3 | 18 had just graduated from high school. To celebrate, she went to a weekend party with friends. |
1:53.0 | When Tasha hadn't heard from her for more than 12 hours, |
1:56.0 | she got frantic. |
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