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Record US fentanyl bust 'enough to kill 26 million people'

Nearly 120lbs (54kg) of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic painkiller, has been seized by police in Nebraska - one of the largest busts in US history.

The drugs, seized last month, could kill over 26 million people, according to estimates by the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). Police found the fentanyl in a fake compartment of a lorry. The driver and a passenger were arrested.

[...] It was the largest seizure of fentanyl in state history, Nebraska State Patrol said in a Twitter post on Thursday.

[...] Just 2mg of fentanyl - or a few grains of table salt - is a lethal dosage for most people, and even exposure can cause a fatal reaction, according to the DEA.

Another estimate: they could make 260 million people pain-free for a day.

Bonus story:

Mussels test positive for opioids in Seattle's Puget Sound

Scientists at the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife have found that mussels in Seattle's waters are testing positive for opioids. The finding suggests "a lot of people" are taking oxycodone in the Puget Sound, researchers say.

Also at the Puget Sound Institute.

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Original Submission

1. "takyon" - https://soylentnews.org/~takyon/
2. "Record US fentanyl bust 'enough to kill 26 million people'" - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44244688
3. "according to the DEA" - https://www.dea.gov/druginfo/fentanyl-faq.shtml
4. "Mussels test positive for opioids in Seattle's Puget Sound" - http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-44256765
5. "Puget Sound Institute" - https://www.pugetsoundinstitute.org/2018/05/bay-mussels-in-puget-sound-show-traces-of-oxycodone/
6. "Opioid Addiction is Big Business" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/06/12/226203
7. "Heroin, Fentanyl? Meh: Carfentanil is the Latest Killer Opioid" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=16/09/03/1417219
8. "Cop Brushes Fentanyl Off Uniform, Overdoses" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/05/16/2025222
9. "Opioid Crisis Official; Insys Therapeutics Billionaire Founder Charged; Walgreens Stocks Narcan" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/10/27/2259236
10. "U.S. Life Expectancy Continues to Decline Due to Opioid Crisis" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=17/12/22/145250
11. "Senate Investigators Google Their Way to $766 Million of Fentanyl" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/01/27/1748201
12. ""Synthetic Opioids" Now Kill More People than Prescription Opioids in the U.S." - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/05/01/2349203
13. "British Medical Journal Calls for Legalizing All Drugs" - https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=18/05/15/1123246
14. "Original Submission" - https://soylentnews.org/submit.pl?op=viewsub&subid=26874

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