DEA sees uptick in 2020 ND drug seizures

By Doug Barrett Mar 24, 2021 | 11:25 AM

North Dakota drug agents seized more fentanyl and heroin in 2020. The DEA reports a 223 percent increase from 2019 in the two drugs combined.

Fentanyl – estimated at approximately 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more potent than heroin – was seized by DEA for the first time in North Dakota since 2016.

Division Special Agent in Charge Justin C. King says the people making these counterfeit pills are by no means careful in their measurements. King says one pill from a single batch may contain 1 milligram of fentanyl, another may contain a lethal dose.

The DEA’s Fentanyl Signature Profiling Program found that 26 percent of illicit fentanyl pills examined in 2019 contained potentially lethal doses of fentanyl. Counterfeit pills can be difficult to distinguish from legitimate medications and are often marketed as M30s…Perc30s…Blues…or Mexican Oxy.

Marijuana was the number one drug seized in North Dakota in 2020 at 11.5 kilograms. Methamphetamine seizures ranked second at 9 kilograms.

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