Beware of Fentanyl Laced Cocaine Ahead of NYE Celebrations, Warns Addiction Treatment Experts

December 30, 2018 – – Drug traffickers are more likely to sell cocaine that has been laced with Fentanyl ahead of the New Year’s Eve celebration, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. Ray Donovan, special agent in charge of the DEA’s New York Field Office, says that it is because more people are coming into the city to celebrate.

The DEA fears that many unsuspecting people may be at risk of coming into contact with the deadly drug because tourists are expected to flood the city for New Year’s Eve.

“NYC has a lot of out of town people coming here to celebrate,” Donovan says. “It’s an opportunity for a drug trafficker or a distributor to pass drugs along to these potential users. And they might think they’re getting one particular drug, but in fact ,they’re getting Fentanyl.”

The Dangers of Fentanyl are prolific. Fentanyl is, in fact, one of the deadliest opioids around. This synthetic opioid is 30 to 50 times more potent than heroin. “Two milligrams is considered potentially lethal,” Donovan says. This year, the DEA’s New York Field Office seized a record 540 million one milligram dosage units.

It is said that around $500 million worth of drugs was stopped from hitting city streets. This dosage is enough to kill an entire city. The DEA admits that thousands and thousands of lives were saved this year because of this. Many people can become addicted and need to seek addiction treatment help.

Between 2013 and 2016, the number of overdose deaths involving Fentanyl increased about 113 percent each year, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. New York is considered a hub for Fentanyl sales across the northeast.

“We often see large shipments of heroin and Fentanyl coming into the city and getting dispersed throughout the northeast as far up as Maine as far down as DC and West Virginia,” Donovan says.

Add in the fact that cocaine on its own is very potent, and it makes Fentanyl-laced cocaine highly dangerous. With the present day opioid crisis, Fentanyl-laced cocaine only seems to make the problem worse. But many people wonder why drug dealers would sell substances that could quickly kill off their customers. The answer, it seems, is simply market competition.

The goal is to make their narcotics stronger and make it so that clients get hooked faster so that they will want to come back.

Opioid-related deaths are up 60 percent from 2015 to 2017. Nearly 60 percent of all overdoses were opioid-related. Several high profile deaths associated with the synthetic opioid are still fresh in the public’s mind: Prince died in 2016 after ingesting a fatal amount of Fentanyl. Even more recently, popular rapper Mac Miller died due to a toxic mixture of cocaine and Fentanyl.

With New Year’s Eve fast approaching, drug dealers are keen to make more money and many are selling this deadly opioid-laced drug.

If someone is addicted to an opioid or any other addictive substance, look for a drug rehab facility nearby and learn more about the recovery process. A combination of medical detox and behavioral therapy can go a long way in the fight against addiction.

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