The DEA said rainbow fentanyl pills are making their way onto our streets, in some cases being compared to candy like Skittles.
The DEA says drug cartels are using these pills to target children and young people, but one pill can contain a lethal dose of fentanyl.
St. Tammany Coroner Dr. Charles Preston said in the first seven months of 2022, 69 people died in St. Tammany Parish of a fentanyl overdose. He said the new fentanyl products are harder and harder to detect and each one gets more potent and becomes more deadly.
The DEA said cartel members are operating everywhere, using social media to contact young people who have no idea what they’re getting.
The DEA recently seized rainbow fentanyl pills in a New Orleans bust. Four out of 10 of those pills contained a lethal dose of fentanyl.
