The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) has issued a warning about an increase in mass overdose occurrences involving fentanyl, a highly addictive and lethal drug that is killing Americans at a “unprecedented” pace across the country. The DEA defines mass overdose incidents as three or more overdoses occurring in a short period of time in the same location. DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said in a letter to federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies on April 6 that there had been at least seven mass incidents since January in which 58 people had overdosed and 29 had died from fentanyl, a synthetic opioid first approved by the FDA to treat acute pain but now widely used as a recreational drug. Many of the victims were unaware that they were swallowing fentanyl, according to Milgram, who highlighted that the overdoses occurred in … Continue reading DEA Speaks Out Amid Highest Fentanyl Death Rates Ever Seen.