In the past two months, the DEA said, there have been at least seven confirmed mass-overdose events across the U.S. resulting in 58 overdoses and 29 overdose deaths.
The agency defines a mass overdose event as three or more overdoses occurring in the same location at the same time.
“This past year, we were up to 280 people a day dying from overdoses,” said Mike Dubet, DEA assistant special agent in charge. “What we found was that people are out buying what they believe is cocaine or prescription drugs, but the drugs are laced with fentanyl or they are actually fentanyl,” Dubet said.
DEA administrator Anne Milgram, who oversees all DEA operations worldwide, issued a statement that says:
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