Florida tops the country in fentanyl seizures, and Attorney General Ashley Moody is applauding law enforcement efforts.
Startling new data reveals a sharp rise in the quantity of fentanyl-laced pills that law enforcement has confiscated across the country, with Florida spearheading the effort to eradicate the lethal synthetic opioids from the streets.
A new estimate states that in 2023, government enforcement collected over 115 million tablets that contained fentanyl from Mexico.
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With the border secure in 2020, the last year of President Trump’s presidency, law enforcement apprehended four million of the deadly tablets.
The shocking study was released in the midst of recently unearthed immigration data that indicates that during the Biden administration, more people than in the prior ten years combined crossed the border.
“This damning report shows the deadly impact of Biden’s wide-open border—record-smashing amounts of fentanyl flooding in and an extremely-high death toll to accompany the massive influx of this Mexican poison. In Florida, we are fighting back the death and destruction emanating from Biden’s border crisis—leading the nation in fentanyl seizures and taking Biden to court in an effort to force him to do his job: close the border and protect the American people,” said Moody.
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In 2023, the Drug Enforcement Administration’s total amount of fentanyl seizures, roughly half in pill form, equaled more than 381 million lethal doses—greater than the population of the United States.
A recent DEA report revealed that seven out of every 10 pills seized contain a lethal dose of fentanyl.
Florida is leading the nation in fentanyl seizures—as drug interdiction efforts increase to deal with the Mexican cartels smuggling illicit substances into the state.
According to the report, Florida law enforcement participated in 2,089 fentanyl seizure operations from 2017 to 2023. Arizona is the next highest state on the list for seizures with 1,783.
In October 2022, Attorney General Moody announced that Florida law enforcement already seized enough fentanyl that year to kill the entire population of the state.
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Fentanyl is being found in all sorts of illicit substances. That is why Attorney General Moody continues to warn Floridians that one pill can kill—creating multiple resources to bring awareness about the dangers of fentanyl and opioid misuse.
The One Pill Can Kill webpage is on DoseOfRealityFL.com and includes life-saving information.
Dose of Reality is designed to provide Floridians with a way to easily access vital information and resources to help combat opioid abuse. The resource also includes a Fast Facts on Fentanyl toolkit to educate parents and protect children from the deadly drug. The toolkit is available in both English and Spanish.
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