Fentanyl Seizures Have ‘Skyrocketed’ in Montana Since 2019: State Attorney General

Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen in an interview on the "Newsmakers" program on Nov. 3, 2022. NTD

There has been an almost 11,000 percent increase in fentanyl seizures in Montana since 2019, according to the state’s attorney general.

In 2022, the Rocky Mountain High-Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (RMHIDTA)—a federal program that consists of 30 counties altogether in Colorado, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming—confiscated 206,955 dosage units of fentanyl in The Treasure State, a 10,800 percent increase since 2019, when 1,900 dosage units of the drug were seized.