What Next: The Real Danger of Fentanyl

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🗓️ 21 November 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Fentanyl has been a right-wing boogeyman and ostensible reason for Republicans to rail for more security at the U.S.-Mexico border. As the opioid crisis continues, the danger fentanyl poses has become vividly clear. While stopping overdoses is important, resurfacing nasty drug war tropes isn’t helping. Guest: Brian Mann, NPR correspondent covering addiction If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Amicus—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:40.6	Let's start with the saga of Rainbow Fentanyl.
0:50.3	Halloween's right around the corner, the DEA warning that deadly Rainbow Fentanyl could
0:54.6	end up inside of a candy bag of your kid.
0:57.6	I first heard about this stuff last month.
1:00.0	It all started with a warning from the DEA over pastel colored opioids.
1:06.9	And that turned into a warning that Fentanyl could end up in your kid's Halloween candy.
1:12.2	This was a ridiculous idea.
1:14.2	It looks like candy and in fact some of the drug traffickers have nicknamed it sweet
1:18.2	tarts, skittles.
1:20.0	It has nothing to do with candy, right?
1:22.1	To be honest, I mostly heard about Rainbow Fentanyl because people in my social media feeds
1:27.5	were dunking on how quickly it got spun up into a political weapon.
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