DRUGS

Tablets believed to be laced with fentanyl are displayed at the Drug Enforcement Administration Northeast Regional Laboratory on October 8, 2019 in New York. - According to US government data, about 32,000 Americans died from opioid overdoses in 2018. That accounts for 46 percent of all fatal overdoses. Fentanyl, a powerful painkiller approved by the US Food and Drug Administration for a range of conditions, has been central to the American opioid crisis which began in the late 1990s. (Photo by Don EMMERT / AFP) (Photo by DON EMMERT/AFP via Getty Images)

DEA, Ariz. police seize record 1.7M fentanyl pills at U.S.-Mexico border

The Drug Enforcement Administration along with Arizona police seized a record 1.7 million fentanyl pills at the U.S.-Mexico border. The DEA confirmed it teamed up with Scottsdale Police and Arizona’s Attorney General’s Office to carry out the drug bust earlier this month.