Purchasing fentanyl is “almost as easy as ordering an Uber"
Orange County Supervisor Doug Chaffee warned that young people can currently buy the deadly opioid "through their iPhone (...) if you have the right app."
Orange County (California) Supervisor Doug Chaffee told The Epoch Times that the fentanyl crisis has become so severe that nowadays buying the drug "is almost as easy as ordering an Uber."
Chaffee explained that many young people buy the drug from an anonymous dealer through social media:
Fentanyl seized in county would kill entire population 30 times over
The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) states that fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is "50 times more potent than heroin" and "100 times more potent than morphine." Chaffee stated:
The supervisor reported that county officers seized nearly 550 pounds of the deadly opioid in 2022. This amount is equivalent to more than 100 million lethal doses and is enough to kill the entire county 30 times over (3.1 million people):
In 2016, there were 37 fentanyl deaths in Orange County. That number increased to 717 in 2021 reaffirming the severity of the crisis.