This secret DEA lab found 99% of seized pills contain fentanyl, the deadliest drug. CNN’s DrSanjayGupta was granted rare access inside. For more on the opioid crisis, watch AmericanPain tonight at 9 p.m. ET/PT.
Watch CNN Films’ “American Pain” at 9 p.m. ET Sunday, February 5. Sitting among the warehouses of Dulles, Virginia, is one of the US Drug Enforcement Administration’s forensic labs. It’s one of eight across the country where scientists analyze illegal drugs and try to stay ahead of what’s driving deadly overdoses. Starting in the late 1990s with overprescribing of prescription narcotics, the opioid epidemic has continued to plague the United States for decades.
Yet even though they have lower rates of overdose deaths overall and drug use among middle and high school students has remained fairly steady over the past decade, overdoses among young people have been climbing. According to a CDC report, among people 10 to 19 years old, the number of monthly overdose deaths increased 109% from 2019 to 2021, and deaths involving illicitly manufactured fentanyl surged 182%.
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