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The Dr. Phil Podcast

The Deadly War That's Killing Americans Right Under Your Nose

The Dr. Phil Podcast

Dr. Phil McGraw

Mental Health, Self-improvement, Society & Culture, Education, Health & Fitness

4.413.2K Ratings

🗓️ 21 November 2025

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Summary

America thinks it has a drug problem. What if it's actually under attack?
From fentanyl to a new wave of designer poisons flooding our streets all traced back to chemical pipelines that begin in China - This is the silent war you were never supposed to see.

 

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0:00.0

I've done a lot of shows about the drug crisis in America, and I've talked a lot about fentanyl.

0:05.2

But what if it's not just a drug problem at all?

0:13.5

I've had a lot of people say, hey, listen, if these idiots want to go out and get on drugs and ruin their life, it's not my problem.

0:23.7

Actually, it is. It's all of our problems, and we're all paying for it, and we're spending

0:28.6

billions of dollars on it, and it's affecting our children, our families, because they're

0:35.3

exposed to it all. So it is our problem. But I'm talking

0:38.3

about more than that. When I say, what if it's not just a drug problem, what if it's more

0:45.3

than just part of the drug culture that has existed for generations? What if this proliferation of, let's focus first on fentanyl, is not just a drug

1:00.8

epidemic. What if it's actually a weapon? That's right, a weapon that has been snuck and embedded into an existing cultural problem on purpose

1:17.1

with intention by an enemy of the United States of America.

1:24.2

Today's real story?

1:25.7

What's happening right now isn't just about addiction anymore.

1:31.3

It's chemical warfare.

1:33.8

And hear that word, war.

1:37.8

It's chemical warfare.

1:41.4

From 2022 through 2024, almost 300,000 people died from drug poisoning.

1:52.8

These weren't overdoses. These were poisonings. And why do I say that? Because there was enough fentanyl in the substances they were taking

2:05.2

that there was no other potential outcome except death.

2:10.6

300,000 people were poisoned to death. That doesn't count the people who lived, or the over 25 million people who became

2:22.0

dependent or addicted to drugs, but lived. Here are some headlines about the problem.

2:29.6

Thousands of counterfeit M30 pills containing car fentanyl seized in western Washington.

2:37.8

I didn't say fentanyl. I said car fentanyl. Even worse than fentanyl. Another headline is China

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