{"id":1502333,"date":"2022-06-03T10:49:38","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T14:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502333"},"modified":"2022-06-03T10:49:49","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T14:49:49","slug":"texas-colo-authorities-warn-of-spike-in-fentanyl-overdoses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/texas-colo-authorities-warn-of-spike-in-fentanyl-overdoses\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas, Colo. authorities warn of spike in fentanyl overdoses"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftexas-colo-authorities-warn-of-spike-in-fentanyl-overdoses%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502333&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2457703\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2457703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Tablets believed to be laced with fentanyl are displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration Northeast Regional Laboratory on October 8, 2019 in New York.\u00a0 (Photo by DON EMMERT\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN NEWSROOM<br \/>UPDATED 7:25 AM PT \u2013 Friday, June 3, 2022<\/h5>\n<p>The Drug Enforcement Administration in El Paso, Texas has warned of a possible surge in drug overdoses. According to the agency, nine patients were taken to local hospitals after experiencing signs of overdoses over a span of around 36-hours last week. Additionally, El Paso police reported two people died from an accidental overdose last month.<\/p>\n<p>Carlos Briano, a spokesperson for the El Paso DEA, said an opioid epidemic is taking place in the community. He stressed using any substance not prescribed by medical professionals can be very dangerous.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cThe only substance that is safe to consume is one that is prescribed to you by a doctor or by a dentist and that you obtained from a licensed pharmacy,\u201d Briano stated. \u201cAnything else, you are playing with your life.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The spokesperson also pointed out that in 2021 the agency seized more fentanyl than the previous five years combined as cartels have continued to smuggle the deadly substance into the US.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cCartels are making fentanyl to appear to be a legitimate medication, in a side-by-side comparison they are almost indistinguishable,\u201d he explained. \u201cThe way we can tell is through a laboratory analysis.\u201d<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Briano said the agency\u2019s ultimate goal is to disrupt and dismantle drug trafficking organizations and warn the public of the dangers. The El Paso County Medical Examiner reported 64 overdose deaths involving fentanyl in 2021, which is a 45 percent increase from the previous year. As authorities in the region deal with the impact of the deadly substance, Colorado is also seeing a high amount of fentanyl flood the the state\u2019s borders.<\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday, authorities in Colorado announced they have already seized more fentanyl this year so far than in all of 2021. The state patrol said they have seized over 2 million dosage units of the synthetic opioid across Colorado\u2019s communities in 2022. This is approximately 400,000 more than 2021. Fentanyl overdoses have also risen in the state, swelling to 540 in 2020 and then doubling to 905 in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities have said their efforts seemed like a \u201cdrop in the bucket\u201d compared to the criminal enterprises manufacturing and distributing the illicit drug.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>\u201cIt is now June 1 and we\u2019ve seen about 225 pounds of fentanyl,\u201d said Col. Matthew Packard of the Colorado State Patrol. \u201cWe talk about how deadly it is and we\u2019re talking about the top of a pin, 225 pounds year to date that Colorado state troopers have taken out of cars being smuggled into Colorado. I think it\u2019s collaborative law enforcement efforts, it\u2019s harm reduction, it\u2019s community engagement and it\u2019s caring about your neighbor. It\u2019s all of those things, the only way we\u2019re going to be successful about this.\u201d\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the CDC, more than 71,000 Americans died from fentanyl overdoses last year, which is an increase of around 14,000 from 2020.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/bidens-usda-pushes-transgender-agenda-or-no-school-lunches\/\">Biden\u2019s USDA Pushes Transgender Agenda Or No School Lunches<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tablets believed to be laced with fentanyl are displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration Northeast Regional Laboratory on October 8, 2019 in New York.\u00a0 (Photo by DON EMMERT\/AFP via Getty<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502333","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/79"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502333"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502333\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502333"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502333"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502333"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}