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These drugs that are now on the street that the dea had to set up a secret forensics lab just to try and keep up. we're making our way there now. scott olten is deputy assistant administrator of the dea's office of forensic scientists. you're getting more pills and more are coming back positive for fentanyl. >> almost every one of them came back positive. >> in 2019, the dea seized roughly 2.2 million pills. in 2022, 50.6 million pills. at the beginning of the opioid epidemic, many of the pills were authentic. the majority of the pills being seized today at the borders, on the streets, even in...

Rink. that is where he was free. his friends would pack up wherever they were, and the family would show up, and i was just in shock. we tried, and we were doing cpr, and not a chance. he was long gone. i don't say that he over dosed, but i say that he died from fentanyl poisoning, and truthfully at the end of the day, i say that he was murdered, because he asked for one thing, and they gave him something different and it took his life. >> reporter: on a single sad night november 2nd, deena's son became one of the fatal overdoses in 2020 al lope and much of it driven by fentanyl. the problem i...

The street that the dea had to set up a secret forensics lab just to try to keep up. we're making our way there now. scott ulton is deputy assistant administrator of the dea's office of forensic sciences. >> you're getting more pills and more of those pills are coming back positive for fentanyl. >> yeah, almost every one of them come back positive. >> reporter: in 2019 the dea seized roughly 2.2 million pills. in 2022, 50.6 million pills. at the beginning of the opioid epidemic many of the pills were authentic. the majority of the pills being seized today at the borders, on the streets, even i...

>> on a single sad night, november 2nd, dina's son became one of the 92,000 fatal overdoses in 2020 alone. much of it driven by fentanyl. the problem is there's so many of these drugs that are now on the street that the dea had to set up a secret forensics lab just to try and keep up. we're making our way there now. scott is deputy assistant administrator. you're getting more pills and more of those pills are coming back positive for fentanyl? >> almost every one of them comes back positive. >> in 2019, the dea seized roughly 2.2 million pills. in 2022, 50.6 million pills. at the beginning of ...

Assistant Secretary for Insular and International Affairs Carmen G. Cantor today wrapped up a trip to Hawai’i, Guam and Saipan. Her visit included valuable opportunities to highlight U.S. investments, the importance of partnerships in the Indo-Pacific region, and the Biden-Harris administration’s recently launched first-ever National Strategy to Advance Equity, Justice, and