House lawmakers filed bipartisan legislation Wednesday to impose new penalties on traffickers who use pill presses to lace fake prescription drugs with fentanyl, meth and other dangerous drugs.
The plan from two Republicans and two Democrats would also require the Drug Enforcement Administration to craft a detailed plan for combating the surge of counterfeit pills that contain synthetic opioids and other drugs, consider new education campaigns to alert parents and potential pill users, and audit the results of existing awareness efforts, such as the “One Pill Can Kill” ad campaign.
Unsuspecting users, many of them young people who acquire the pills online, may die from experimenting with the pills. An online DEA tracker says agents have seized 40.5 million pills this year. Drug enforcement agents say Mexican cartels use chemical precursors from China to manufacture fentanyl and press it into the fake pills that are shipped north of the border. The pills are a major profit driver for the cartels, and most of the pill presses used to make the pills are sourced from China.
Fentanyl is the No. 1 killer in a broader U.S. overdose crisis that has killed more than 100,000 Americans per year. Roughly 70,000 of the 107,000 overdose deaths in the U.S. were linked at least in part to fentanyl in 2021, the most recent year for which complete data is available.
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