Tuesday was Annual Fentanyl Awareness Day

Officials across the nation are continuing to inform the public about the dangers of fentanyl. Tuesday was the third annual Fentanyl Awareness Day, as established by the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said an average of 200 people are lost to the drug every day. “It is often pressed into pills or mixed in powder, so someone may not realize they are taking it and it is in every community across the nation,” she said. Commander Steven B. Mueller of the Multi-Area Narcotics Task Force (MAN Unit), agreed the substance is “everywhere.”