A school in Hartford, Connecticut remains closed on Tuesday after fentanyl contamination and a student’s death. On Monday school officials at the Sport and Medical Sciences Academy said testing did not meet the standard and the decontamination process on campus must be repeated.
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.
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) says Mexican drug cartels are to thank for America’s surge in fake prescription pills laced with fentanyl. During a press conference on Thursday, the DEA added the nation’s alarming number of overdose-related deaths have been caused by cartels flooding across the border to make a profit.