Perspectives Matter #3001 - The DEA Message: One Pill Can Kill

“One Pill Can Kill.” That’s the message of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.

Two milligrams (2mg); that’s less than five grains of salt of illicit fentanyl are considered a lethal dose, about what you could put on a tip of a sharp pencil.

Joining Host Jim Falk is Special Agent in Charge Eduardo A. Chávez, Drug Enforcement Agency, Dallas Field Division (DEA), who talks about the challenges of Fentanyl and how the DEA combats it.

Fentanyl is a potent synthetic opioid drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use as an analgesic (pain relief) and anesthetic. It is approximately 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin as an analgesic

In 2021, 107,000 Americans died of drug poisoning and 2/3 of these deaths involved synthetic opioids, usually fentanyl-laced prescription pills. Most health experts believe that these numbers are understated.

Opioid-related deaths involving synthetic opioids like fentanyl have tripled in the last decade and account for 67% of all opioid overdose deaths in the United States.

Join us to learn more about the dangers of Fentanyl so you can protect yourself and your community.