Nebraska police have discovered fake prescription pills laced with the synthetic opioid fentanyl in the city of Omaha, just over a week after the Drug Enforcement Administration issued a public alert warning Mexican drug cartels are making them in “mass quantities” with the intention of selling them to users throughout North America.
The DEA did not specify what pills were being faked, but photos of what it said it had seized showed mostly pills which are baby blue in color and stamped with the letter “M,” on one side, and the number “30” on the other. They appear similar to a brand of prescription painkiller oxycodone hydrochloride, and the DEA warned against the circulation of the counterfeit pills which contain “potentially lethal doses of fentanyl.”
