A new report released by the DEA last week details how fentanyl is now also being sold off as prescription opioid painkillers, like Percocet and Norco, without the customers' knowledge. Fentanyl has also been found in counterfeit Xanax pills, which is frightening because the common anti-anxiety medicine is not an opioid to begin with.
Raw fentanyl and its precursors are produced in China before being shipped to Mexico, Canada, and the United States, where regional drug dealers use industrial pill presses to make the counterfeit pharmaceuticals.
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