NBC News’ Lester Holt is granted rare access to the DEA’s evidence vault to see the scale of the fentanyl crisis first hand. The majority of counterfeit pills intercepted by the DEA are seized in Arizona. The special agent in charge warns of how easy it is to purchase pills online as this crisis touches every corner of the country.» Subscribe to NBC News: http://nbcnews.to/SubscribeToNBC
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#Phoenix #Arizona #DEA
Phoenix Is ‘The Head Of The Snake’ As DEA Cracks Down On Counterfeit Pills
The Republican-led state of Kentucky experienced a 56.8 percent increase in drug overdose deaths over the past year. Kentucky is one of the least educated states in the US with one of the highest poverty rates. The poverty rate in Kentucky is 18.3%. One out of every 5.5 residents of Kentucky lives in poverty.
It’s crazy that people in poverty can afford this expensive stuff, versus putting the money to get out of poverty.
For the people commenting that Fentanyl is somehow expensive and prohibitive compared to paying rent, buying food, etc. …
…no offense, but… are you daft? 🤔 Crunch the #s, research the data, and learn to comprehend the problem(s). Especially prior to making gross assumptions & assertions which are non-sequitur.
and yet they have equal representation in the senate.
@Katherine Olson Who do you think is on Kentucky’s boarder?? And who defunded law enforcement in Kentucky???
Senators Rand Paul and Mitch McConnell both got re-elected last cycle – Kentucky voted them in again because Republicans always vote and Independents often can’t decide and Democrats too often fail to vote but always love to whine about the outcomes. (I remember the fair-weather dems in 2016 who assumed that clown could not possibly win and then lied about having voted for Hilary.)
Stop the war on drugs, drugs won. Always a new scary drug that we have to pour money into stopping. We just go from one drug to another and stop none of it. Remember when cannabis was around and they made a big deal about it on the news and spent millions on the war against it? It is still around. Remember when coke was around and they made a big deal about it on the news and spent millions on the war against it? It is still around. Remember when crack was around and they made a big deal about it on the news and how we were fighting it? Crack is still around. Remember when ecstasy was around and they made a big deal about it on the news and spent millions on the war against it? It is still around. Remember when pain killers was around and they made a big deal about it on the news and spent millions on the war against it? It is still around. Remember when heroin was around and they made a big deal about it on the news and spent millions on the war against it? It is still around.
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Not one to wish ill on anyone. People who choose to use simultaneously choose to lose.
(Pat on the back for you) and ima give you 5-10 mins to investigate then study what addiction is…because according to Jim, an overwhelming number of people aren’t nearly as strong as you🥱😲…lol you do realize that you said “Just say No” with Condescending Confucius-esque laced rhetoric..you do realize that even pharmacy drugs are getting stepped on now? However, it is ultimately up to the individual regarding dosage/moderation, their connect , are they trust worthy, do they use what they sell? Various variables this generation refuses to plug into the equation…the devil hasnt had to work hard a single day the past year and some change
You realize a good majority of users start with prescription use right? It wasn’t too long ago doctors were handing out prescription opiates to anyone who stubbed their toe. Remember when [name brand prescription opiate producer] was caught providing kickbacks to doctors who prescribed their medication? They were one of many doing this.
And when you pull the rug out from people who are already addicted to the prescription drugs, they have to turn to street drugs to maintain. Street drugs that are now almost always laced with fentynal (because its cheaper to produce and requires far less product for similar effect).
A little education goes a long way towards understanding.
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LOL! Funny man!
Seek help
Fentynol Floyd
Oxycontin was fda approved just like the covid vaccine 👌 because its not about the money
Kratom is the answer
I took that stuff a few weeks b4 my first arrest ever in my life. I was sick for days and have bad mental health issues. I hate kratom
People are addicted to experiences. It’s nature of life.
Everything you experience is a chemical reaction
Lost my youngest daughter to these pills, It’s about time they stated talking about .
🙁💔✌
Sorry about your loss, I know the pain I lost my son to oxy.
End prohibition, bankrupt the cartels and gangs. End all overdose deaths by providing safe legal regulated fentanyl free drugs. The war on drugs is whats killing people.
And legalize prostitution
@G hugs not drugs..
Stop making doctors s ared to prescribe them
Need more people to know about those Testing strips. Great story.
God bless us all
Why did they have to pass a bill to legalize test strips?
Why is prostitution illegal?
@G why are sawed off shotguns illegal?
Wow. This is crazy 😧
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I’m sticking with aspirin
just pick up a blunt, it’s legal now…..
still not legal many places
Maybe we need to send them back to China. They are experiencing a lot of pain.
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Weed is medication for unhealthy people, not for healthy people.
@G NONSENSE.
@G Unhealthy people? Your ignorance is shining through again G.
It was only an epidemic orb”crisis” when white, straight, middle class people on up started getting hooked and dying. Now they’ve ruined it for everyone now doctors won’t prescribe necessary treatments, and people are self medicating who should be getting it. Plus there is also the factor of mental illness being tied to addictions with a lack of resources to diagnose, treat, and just plan help those with mental illnesses and addiction, especially for lower income people and those who are marginalized. One thing we should do is decriminalize addiction, establish a stronger drug addiction sector in our judicial system that is linked to social services which too need to be strengthened in regards to addiction and mental illness so that all cases regarding addiction Will be processed through it so that individuals who need help get it without the general court systems ruining their lives further and not actually helping. It shouldn’t take the wealthier, white, straight class suffering to get shot done.
Well he ain’t getting no degree now he should’ve thought differently.
Legalize all drugs , problem solved
It was like that in the 1890s
The drugs were made illegal for a reason
ReaI drug educati0n, pr0bIem half s0Ived
Been a epidemic
That’s the way they want it so that’s the way they get it
Bidens America
Donald Trump could have ended the opioid crisis if he wanted to
@James Ricker Biden is president
@G cleaning up trumps mess
Drop in the bucket 😒
I have no feelings for people who OD. They knew what they were doing. We should just give them more drugs.
they know what they are doing but cant stop, even if they want to…
but you wouldnt know that because you dont know how addictive drugs work.
It’s a nice way to go
I hate these drugs! So many dying for them! So sad!
It’s an attact by China. Just like all the invasive species.
You hear that AZ your the snakes head!!
And yet the company who got many people hooked on opioids was allowed too file bankruptcy!
Competition🤔
@Justin Phenix not mine if that’s what your ignorant self is insinuating. All I’m saying is that they should all be held accountable.
When you wonder about the meth house down the street…
Beautiful addiction
Good to see Phoenix and the rest of Arizona catch these people
😂 those drugs were sold as soon as the cameras stopped filming, let’s go Brandon!!!!
How tf is this not on joe Biden’s agenda
Democrats are making millions with China and also child trafficking, the Brandon administration at its best.
@Galaxia X Zip it, liar
@TruckerExile E facts!!!!
It is
The problem is the filibuster
If it will help America you know the Republicans will oppose it
So they store them instead of ridding them? Pour water on them n let them melt away already
Like we care about their votes then…SERIOUSLY!!!
I like how mom softened it with, ” He took a pain pill”…sorry, but he took street drugs.
It’s still a pain pill, fentanyl is a prescribed painkiller.
@CreatingAlong but this is street “Fentanyl” so who knows what’s really in it and how strong it is.
CONSUMMATION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. 🙂
What that covid kills
thanks Biden for opening up the border
Thanks Donald Trump for pretending the drug problem didn’t exist
What can you expect with nice guy Biden being laxed with the border!I wonder how many pills reached the streets?The opiate crisis will get worse and worse if Biden or Kamala dont get serious with border security.
Gov. Ducey could STOP this, but he’s highly invested in *Narcan* , so… he won’t!!
DEA is one of the largest drug dealers of all they are in fact the plug for a lot of heavy organizations! Funny how they show us what they want but not what they do! Poor folks don’t own planes ✈️ or boats 🚤 but have every drug and the most guns. Story don’t get traction until white kids in wealthy start dying. Asinine!
Thank goodness our southern borders are secure…. Thanks Democrats
Exactly
Why don’t y’all just stop doing drugs?
Thanks democrats for opening the border wide open
thx republicans for extending this wonderful pandemic…. It a pandemic of unvaxed maga.
@mark brown still blaming trump for all your policies 😂 you need a vaccine for trump deranged syndrome, let’s go Brandon brown !!!
@mark brown I have a question for you, the build back better plan in the long run according to the world economic forum is to seize all private property from all citizens and you will rent from the government plus take in refugee families into single dwelling homes, my question is, since the fascist democrats are pushing it do you support it ?.
I am smoking meth in the back seat of my truck while driving for fentanyl. Meth doesn’t give me the kick any more. I think I will die but I don’t care because the fentanyl is so good.
My parents say they are going to kick me out of the house unless I take a whole ounce of Psilocybin Mushrooms and become a Peyote Shaman and smoke weed.
and attack the capital
My former home state and city being back in the news again is NEVER a good thing!
Don’t buy drugs via social media from unknown dealer… get your pain killer from your doctor at a pharmacy not off the street or risk your life dumb people…
Yeah if only they didn’t full stop prescribing opiates to anyone, so the streets are litrally the only option for most people.
Biden open boarder policy is killing people
so it may be a good idea to stop the millions of people crossing our border? just an idea I had.
China is the head. Mexico the mouth and this is being shoved down our throats because of the open border
They are called blues.They can be purchased for as little as 5 or three dollars.
Where?
@David Jansen Quik Trip gas station on 51st street
@A LUCKY CROOK 😂😂😂
I interview these young homeless fentanyl addicts here in Phoenix everyday for the past year. It’s at an epidemic proportion indeed. Where’s the help?
Exactly I follow you and just yesterday i went to whataburger I asked my lady on the way there that I bet on the way back home I can count more than 10 people on the streets/avenues that look like they need help I didn’t even count are community needs to change for the better
Put some law enforcement at the airports, start checking your Snowbirds.
Fent worse than methamphetamine in Phx…..?
That’s badddd
I can guarantee ten times that amount got in let’s go Brandon
bds
To stop the drugs you must first stop the cops.
DEA woman: Head of the snake…
Lester Holt: You ever seen the Boa Holt?
Too bad the senator lost her son.
How about sponsoring a bill for capital punishment for dealers. After all, it’s their drugs doing the killing, and they know it but show no remorse and keep doing it. Or maybe we should be going to war with Mexican Cartels or Chinese drug companies. Annually there are over 60,000 deaths due to drug overdose. We fought Afghanistan and Iraq for 20 years over the death of less than 3000 people.
Politicians and police get paid off by the drug cartels, they ain’t giving up all that cash.
Your mistaken all those people for big pharma. The CIA has been caught running drugs in the 80’s wanna fight with them to.
They give us access to these drugs then turn around and arrest us after their money is made
Facts!🍻😂
Dope game strong, the streets run it.
Pill game strong, the cops run it.
Cnn got it wrong, china is the head, Mexico is the body, Americans are the victims.
Burn it up destroy it all!!! Please!!! Please please,!!!
I thought that we paid the DEA to stop this from happening?
Arizona better quit worrying about a wall and start figuring out whom is leaving the back door open ..
You know if the government provided safe tested oxycodone pills for people who wanted to do opiates. It would save tens of thousands of lives per year. We need drug education and safe tested substances to save 10s of thousands of lives.
Never gonna happen though
People wouldn’t even want oxycodone pills if they already tried pills with fetty in them. Wont even feel anything if they’re already used to the fetty. That’s how serious this is.
Edit: already tried*
As low as 2.50 a pill in tucson
When will they be investigating hunter?
i think the irs is investigating hunter and trump.
For what??
Someone once (deliberately) laced my drink with Fentanyl. I didn’t know it at the time, but the symptoms I went through were excruciating.
I know who did it, but, I cannot prove it, and it was in early 2020.
I’m glad I didn’t die, but there are many who (sadly) wish I had. Some ‘people’ have truly lost their sense of humanity, compassionate, honor, courage, spirituality and more for intending such vile consequences to someone who’s done nothing but HELP the people around him.
It is what it is. Some ‘humans’ truly are… hot buckets of trash. 😕
Apparently, the rest of the snake is in Scottsdale.
Whos worse? The govts that started this, or the trafficker?
Maybe we can stop persecuting pot smokers finally.
Thats why PRES. DUTERTE launched the WAR ON DRUGS fiercely in the Philippines before it will be too late.
China sure has an Agenda now don’t they. They seem to attack America in every possible way… there seems to be many foreign and domestic that want to make America a 3rd world country in every way.
Thank you very much Sleepy Joey.
no, thank you and trump for ignoring a pandemic. Now its just a pandemic of the unvaxed maga.
WTF?? For what???
@mark brown hahahah… the brainwashing to blame trump for everything is unreal… do you understand what the president’s job actually is???? Wake up!!!!!
addicts know that blues are fentanyl . that’s why they buy them.
The cartels only care about making money not people’s lives. So sad
Thank joe biden for open border, and not doing any thing
My friend died the other day from these pills made from the fentanyl that Biden allows across the border every day
400 Americans per week
I literally I’m sickened
by the ignorance
of these Democrats
TLDR: “Made in China, shipped to Mexico drug cartel, smuggled into the US…etc.” Thats basically it. Cut ALL supply Chain as punishment of where real root cause is = China. And remember also the CCPChina virus that now k*lled over 5m+lives in world. We still waiting for all accountabilities on these issues!
The Phoenix is on the Rise
Made in china
When in reality the ” head of the snake” is within its own alphabet agencies.
Do they have ANY IDEA just how much pain relief all that is? What do they “supposedly” do with em? They burn em… I hate this “war on drugs”. Really, it’s a war on pain relief and personal freedoms. Our government makes me sick!
We should go back to the late 1800’s where you could walk into a drug store with a migraine and walk out with liquid morphine and a tincture of cocaine for your ailments. Land of the free indeed…
I thought Arizona was a big Republican State… and since Republicans are super pure and good and smart shouldn’t they be catching all illegal activity???? Maybe you should give Trump a horse and let HIM patrol the border.
Drugs are a terriorist attack and should be treated as such
A good way to go to stop to all of that !! Have the cops stop saving the ones at OD !! Pretty soon there won’t be a market for those pills because everybody will be dead !! End of problem !!
I guess Walter White is expanding 🤣🤣🤣
Great
So long as they’re moving tons of money and paying off (folks), there will be no stop.
Why are AMERICANS in such pain they need take these? Why do so many AMERICANS apparently want to die?