There is a big difference between medical
pharmaceutical-grade fentanyl and illicitly manufactured fentanyl.

Did You Know?

Illicit fentanyl analogs are being created in China and brought into this country illegally.

Illicit fentanyl is being used to easily create massive quantities of counterfeit pressed pills that are made to look exactly like pharmaceutical-grade pills. They are laced with heroin, cocaine, meth, and all other street drugs. Drug organizations can now bypass the need for natural products such as heroin because fentanyl is an entirely synthetic, artificial chemical. The amount of fentanyl it takes to cause death is 2 mg, the size of just two or three grains of salt.

How Does Fentanyl Work?

  • Fentanyl is 50 to 100 times more potent than heroin.

  • It blocks the natural receptors in the brain, causing the victim to possibly begin an instant battle with suicidal depression and/or develop an addiction unlike anything that has ever been seen before.

  • If fentanyl exposure doesn’t kill the person instantly, its effects on the body, mind, and spirit are so toxic that they may require in-depth recovery after just one use.

  • Because there is an unlimited supply of fentanyl coming into the US, it is much more accessible to traffic, making the business highly profitable.

  • These are not the drugs of the past! Today, it is much more dangerous to experiment with drugs of any kind due to fentanyl poisoning.

Fentanyl is Not a Choice. It’s Murder.

Imagine a friend has offered you a glass of wine. You drink it, but it is laced with arsenic without your consent or knowledge. If you die, is it your fault, or were you murdered?

The same concept applies to the fentanyl poisoning happening all over our country. Fentanyl is the number one killer of people aged 18 to 45 in the US, most often because street drugs are laced without the user’s knowledge.

107,375 people

in the United States died of drug overdoses and poisonings between January 2021 and 2022.


67% of those deaths

involved synthetic opioids like fentanyl.

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