Drug overdose deaths topped 100,000 this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a grim number that exceeds the number of people who died from car crashes and gun violence combined.
The main culprit is illegally manufactured fentanyl, which experts say can be 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more powerful than morphine.
Milgram talked exclusively to Brennan this week, as she promoted the DEA's One Pill Can Kill campaign to raise awareness about the overdose epidemic. Milgram announced this week that DEA agents have seized an unprecedented amount of fentanyl and fake prescription pills laced with the fatal chemical. "We know every single day across America that drugs are being sold on these social media sites Snapchat, TikTok, Facebook." says Milgram.
Many of the chemicals that go into the production of fentanyl are "sourced from China," said Milgram. "They're going to the Mexican criminal drug cartels that are then mass producing, often at an industrial scale."
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