The Silent Epidemic: The Growing Threat of Fentanyl in Southern California

A Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) chemist checks pills containing fentanyl at the DEA Northeast Regional Laboratory in New York on Oct. 8, 2019. Don Emmert/AFP via Getty Images

When Gail Smith lost her son to a drug overdose in 2016, she joined an Orange County club of which nobody wants to be a member.

“My son Kenny died of an accidental overdose of heroin mixed with fentanyl,” Smith told The Epoch Times. “We were told that there was enough fentanyl to kill 10 elephants.”