Increase In Deaths Linked To Increase Use Of Fentanyl Being Mixed With Other Drugs

"Red lips" bag contains a fentanyl-meth mix

Just a speck of fentanyl—seven hundred thousandths of an ounce (0.00007)—can kill a person, but drug dealers are using the synthetic opioid more and more.

They are using fentanyl to manufacture counterfeit pills or mixing it with other drugs (like an especially volatile fentanyl-methamphetamine combo being distributed in baggies with a "red lips" logo). Why are they doing this? To increase their profits—with a wanton disregard for the potentially lethal consequences.

Overdose deaths are on the rise across the Midwest. In the Kansas City metropolitan area a leading contributor to this deadly trend has been fentanyl. Between 2019 and 2020, overdose deaths attributed to fentanyl in the Kansas City metropolitan area rose 149%.

» A DEADLY MIX

One Pill Can Kill

The COMBAT-supported Jackson County Drug Task Force confiscated 12,943 counterfeit pills last year laced with fentanyl. Each and every one could possibly be a "poison pill."

The odds of getting a deadly dose of fentanyl from a counterfeit pill are about 50-50.

» THE HIGH PERCENTAGE OF FAKE PILLS WITH A DEADLY DOSE OF FENTANLY

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