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Marijuana smuggling started tofi decline and we started to see a significant increase in the smuggling of heroin, fentanyl, t and methamphetamine. >> tucker: fentanyl, too? >> yes.am >> tucker: okay. give us a sense, large amounts? enough to drive the epidemic that is killing so many americans? >> oh, absolutely. especially fentanyl, the drug is a danger for anyone who is using it but our officers, as well. we have had several exposures in our state where officers have been exposed to fentanyl and they had to have the narcan to reverse the effects so they don't die of exposure. citizens, the s...

We have the heroin problem but now we have the fentanyl problem because it is so dangerous, and we are seeing it. it is coming in the format of essentially fake pills. what the cartels are sending up our what are being sold as oxy, but it's fake. it's fentanyl, and it's more potent and more dangerous. >> tucker: we have seen video of drug tunnels coming into the united states. how common are those in your county? >> in our county, not common. we are off the board about 70 miles and the county is unique being that we are off the border 70 miles but it is open . that is what kind of makes us mor...

You'd say jackie's dead. that would be the first thought of my day. and it would be the last thought before i'd go to bed. >> 4, 6 milligrams, it depends on how much they took, how strong the drug was. >> to see what's happening in this community because of this drug epidemic is really a tragedy. >> manchester fire chief confronts death almost daily. it is part of the profession, but the volume of deaths due to drugs leaves him struggling for words. >> i don't know how to describe the deaths we're seeing as a community here. we don't have a heroin problem in new hampshire. we have a fentanyl p...