kids don t even know. they think it is an herbal supplement and they might not know it is fentanyl. police just recovered 100 bags of fentanyl from a then-year-old s bed over he a 13-year-old s bedroom. explain to the audience. and please, listen and tell your young people what this is. explain what fentanyl is and why it is so dangerous. right. so fentanyl is a synthetic opioid. it is made in a lab. it is very cheap and very deadly. you only need a tiny, tiny amount to kill you. he sow you can buy just strayed up fentanyl but that s not really how people are dying. the bulk of the deaths are because someone buys what they think is a percocet. what they think is meth. someone buys what they think is cocaine and it is laced with fentanyl. they have no idea that they re taking fentanyl and they die because of the fentanyl that is in those drugs.