Emergency. dea administrators having mass poisoning alerts pushed out like el paso dea two weeks ago had nine overdoses in a 24-hour period. it doesn t stop. ohio state university two deaths when the kids thought they were taking fent adderall that had fentanyl. a pre-immediate student. the da is bringing in all the families june 14th and 15th around the country to push awareness. the families are being devastated. bill: clearly. sir, can we stop this from being distributed throughout all of our cities all over the country? well bill, we have to take it serious right now. there is no sense of urgency. we have to destroy the chemical prouk production labs and shut down the supply of chemicals coming from china and cut off the funding. we have to realize now with the open border and migrant
Story. reporter: some bars and clubs in the u.s. are now offering their patrons something else, besides music and drinks, something new. a simple piece of paper that can detect the synthetic opioid fentanyl. for decades, opioid overdoses have cast a shadow over the united states. in april, the ctc estimated annual overdose deaths reached an all-time high. close to 700,000 people died of drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending in november 2021 and about two-thifrds of those deaths deaths involved fentanyl, particularly deadly opioid. according to a report by the u.s. drug enforcement administration, many of the i illicit drugs in circulation in the u.s. are adulterated with fentanyl. it can prove fatal. fent check is taking matters into their own hands. we are going around to bars, and um, they all have bowls of free fentanyl test strips and we are just refilling them, making
The fent he knows is pouring in over our southern border and communities and it s getting worse and worse and worse. he needs to standing up for the rule of law. he took the same oath i did. for him to turn his back on the american people and ignore the laws that people are required to follow to come into this country is outrageous. and he ought to be ashamed of himself. steve: all right. sheriff, we thank you very much for joining us today. good luck to you. thank you. thank you for having me, steve. great day. steve: real pleasure. 13 minutes before the top of the hour. adam is out on the street 1221 avenue of the americas with the foxcast. good morning there, steve. a little bit cool out here still. we are beginning to warm out here on fox square. really you are going to see a pleasant second half of the week across the country but beginning beginningwith frost and freeze s still holding on into in new england. tail end of the issue with the storm we were talking about. on
The Investigative Unit spent five months digging into our growing fentanyl crisis by following a troubling case out of Santa Cruz County involving the sudden.
After making its way across the country, our nation’s fentanyl crisis has hit California, including the Bay Area. Fatal fentanyl poisonings soared before and.