U.S. Law Enforcement Seizures of Pills Containing Fentanyl Increased Dramatically Between 2018-2021

• By: The National Institutes of Health (NIH)
• July 14th, 2022
• drug seizures, drug trafficking, fentanyl, illegal drugs, law enforcement, narcotics, opioid epidemic, overdose, Summer 2022 Issue, synthetic opioids
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Law enforcement seizures of pills containing illicit fentanyl increased dramatically between January 2018 and December 2021, according to a new study. The number of individual pills seized by law enforcement increased nearly 50-fold from the first quarter of 2018 to the last quarter of 2021 and the...