China News Network May 17 - Recently, the problem of illicit drug abuse in the United States has aroused renewed concern. Milgram, director of the US Drug Enforcement Administration, told the Congress recently that it is "as simple as ordering delivery" for Americans to obtain illegal pills. The huge amount of "fake medicine pills" circulating in the American society every year has killed tens of thousands of people, and it is easier to penetrate into the youth group, destroying more and more families and communities.

　　 Get illegal pills

　　 "It's as simple as ordering takeout"

According to ABC, US Drug Enforcement Administration Director Milgram recently told Congress that obtaining illegal pills is "as simple as taking them out through mobile phone application points".

Milgram told the House of Representatives Appropriation Subcommittee that "the most dangerous place in the world is our home now." Milgram said that people can receive illegal pills at home through simple operation on their mobile phones, just like ordering pizza on the delivery platform.

According to her introduction, among these illegally manufactured pills, Qicheng contains some form of fentanyl. Milgram said that in 2023, the US Drug Enforcement Administration seized 79 million "fake pills" and 12000 pounds of fentanyl powder.

According to the research report of the National Institutes of Health, the number of single pills containing fentanyl seized by law enforcement agencies in the United States in 2023 will exceed 115 million, 2300 times the number in 2017. According to the New York Times, the National Center for Health Statistics estimates that the number of deaths from drug overdoses in the United States will be about 108000 in 2023.

These "fake pills" devoured the living life, and then destroyed the family and community. Oregon Public Radio (OPB) reported that in Motenoma County, the United States, an average of 36 people will die each month due to fentanyl related drug overdoses in 2023.

"Every death in the report represents a real person, which makes people around them sad and heartbroken, and the whole community is traumatized by their loss," said Banks, director of the county's health bureau, in a statement

　　 Teenagers suffer from "poison"

　　 Drug War Becomes a "National Tragedy"

According to Milgram, 22 teenagers between the ages of 14 and 18 in the United States die every week due to illegal drug use. In her opinion, "this is a national tragedy".

This figure is the same as that of a study in the New England Journal of Medicine. "Given the recent increase in counterfeit pills, teenagers may not realize how high the risk of trying pills is," said Friedman, one of the study's authors and a researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles

The "fake medicine pill" mixed with fentanyl has become the main culprit of the drug overdose deaths of American teenagers.

The US public television network "News Hour" reported earlier that 84% of American teenagers died of drug overdose involving fentanyl, while 56% died of drug overdose only related to fentanyl.

News One Hour reported that because teenagers usually have no tolerance to opiates, and may not know that there is fentanyl when taking illegal pills, teenagers are more likely to overdose. Teenagers are also more likely to "use pills rather than powders".

On May 13 local time, an 18-year-old American teenager Nelson was charged with three felonies and faced life imprisonment. Because he had previously provided a drug containing fentanyl to a 15-year-old girl, Aor, who died of overdose.

At the press conference held by the Supu Police Department and the Anti drug Propaganda Organization, Orr's parents said that according to the toxicity reports received, the tablets were mixed with fentanyl, and the content of fentanyl in her daughter's body reached three times (the lethal dose). Orr's father appealed to the public that one pill could kill people. Orr's parents found that when she died, there were four pills beside her.

"Getting illegal pills is as simple as ordering takeaway", and a large number of lethal pills are flowing to the most vulnerable youth groups. How many times will the tragedy of the Orr family be staged in the American society where the root of poison is hard to remove? (End)