Officials issue warning about fentanyl

Officials issue warning about fentanyl

A deadly drug?

Circling the hoosier state tonight.

An urgent warning coming from top officials as fentanyl makes it way up and down the state.

The illicit drug responsible for more than 800 deaths in 2?19?

And now*2020 on record to be even more deadly.

44news reporter megan devinti joins us tonight to lay out a warning of the utmost importance to you and your family.

Megan?

Just the smallest amount is deadly.

??a agents says a few flakes, just enough to sit atop a pencil point... is a lethal dose.

Illegal fentanyl is cheaper than heroin... and it's coming into the ?s from other countries.

Michael gannon, assistant special agent in charge, deawe just need to know that it's killing people.

01:16 at high, high levels.

And this is*no* your doctor's fentanyl.

Michael gannon, assistant special agent in charge, deaif you're not getting it from a doctor, or a pharmacist that's reputable and you get your own prescription, and you're trusting that you're getting it from somebody on the street or the black market, you're playing russian roulette with your life.

Plus?

An urgent warning?

Other prescription pill could be lased with the deadly drug.

Fentanyl now showing up in thousands of oxycodone pills.

This would be like a typical oxycodone pill right here.

What that actually is, is it was fentanyl.

The reported numbers are staggering... according to the state department of health?

817 people died in 2019 by opioid overdose?the drug doesn pick and choose who its victim is, for some people it doesn end until their 6 feet in the groun?

A big player in keeping that number down?

Narcan.

You can only imagine what the real numbers would be like if we didn't have narcan.

And were told that a minimal amount is deadly.

This is a sugar packet, obviously, ?4 grams of sugar are in this packet.

Look at that amount, that could affect two thousand people's lives and kill them.

The dea claims flow of fentanyl starts out of the country.

But spreads like wildfire as it is pushed through cities like evansville and distributed around the region.?there a big market for it.

Evansville is a hub, a distribution hub, we get a lot of stuff in from louisville, nashville, indy and chicago that comes here for further distributio?

Officials urging us to come together as a community supporting those who need help there is assistance at every level?

And a way to safely dispose of your medications?

Such as on drug take back days?

Where you can safely dispose of any unused prescriptions.

That information has been posted to our website wevv dot com.

Megan diventi 44news.