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State department leaders said illicit fentanyl cannot be absorbed through the skin if it is touched.

With statewide events drawing a large number of visitors in the coming weeks, Governor Mark Gordon and state leaders are reminding the public about the dangers of fentanyl, a narcotic that is becoming increasingly prevalent across the entire country, including Wyoming. Sheridan Media’s Ron Richter h

SAN DIEGO, Calif. – May 4, 2022 – A dramatic increase in drug overdose deaths, primarily due to illicit fentanyl, is being reported across the U.S. 1 Contributing to these deaths is the proliferation of counterfeit pills often containing fentanyl that are nearly impossible to distinguish from authentic medications.

In twenty twenty one came in august in otay mesa near san diego. thats where cbp recovered one hundred and twenty seven pounds of the deadly opioid which was being smuggled the trailer driven by a mexican national. it had a street value of thirteen million dollars. >> you dont hear much about fentanyl use in the national news. so to give you a sense of just how quickly growing the dea s national drug assessment didnt ue e mention fentanyl notme a single time in 2013, customs and border protectio...

$13 million. >> tucker: you dont hear much about fentanyl used in the national use, so to give you a sense of how quickly it is growing, the dea national drug assessment did not even mention fentanyl, not a single time in 2013. customs and border protection seized just 2 pounds of fentanyl over the entire year. fast-forward to last year. customs and border patrol sees more than 11,000 pounds of fentanyl. that means the amount of fentanyl flowing into the u.s. has increased by 560000% in less tha...

Cope, its been over 200. >> a volunteer with learn to cope, jim derek says the group is vital support as he wrestles with his own sons fentanyl use. >> people come to a meeting, and they walk away with a kit, including narcan. how important is that? >> it is critically important. two people that ive trained have used it directly to save their loved ones, including my sons mother, who saved his friend from a lethal overdose about six months ago. >> good morning. learn to cope. >> the stories that...

>> we really want to educate the families on how to recognize an overdose and what puts them at risk and make sure they have narcan in their home. >> reporter: narcan or naloxone is a drug that can reverse an opioid overdose and give families a chance to rescue someone they love. do you have any idea how many rescues have been reported? >> i know that for learn to cope its been over 200. >> reporter: a volunteer with learn to cope, jim derek says the group has vital support as he wrestles with h...

Going to be okay. and i have had so many people say to me they have feel grateful that they were a member of a peer group like learn to cope because they understood the disease. i know a mom, her son had cancer. he had been prescribed oxycontin. because he was in pain. he was taken off it and he turned to heroin and she told me she missed his cancer. she said, you know why? because everyone loved him then. no one gives anything about him now. >> reporter: even after 20 years of covering these ty...

>> dana: border patrol agents overwhelmed are sounding the alarm on the spike in drug smuggling claiming cartels are bringing deadly narcotics across the border into the u.s. communities across america that are seeing an increase in fentanyl use and deaths. >> good morning to you. happening all over the place and were coming up on three months since vp kamala harris was appointed as is so-called border czar and she has still not come down to look at the ongoing situation that doesnt appear to be...