What is Rainbow Fentanyl?
Rainbow fentanyl has been in the news and in public health warnings lately, with the Centers for Disease Control (the CDC) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) issuing information and health statements and plenty of news agencies picking it up as a story. It is a potent and dangerous opioid drug called fentanyl that is found in a variety of bright colors, made in labs and distributed by Mexican drug cartels and street drug dealers. As Halloween nears, the fear of some parents is that their children may mistake these drugs for candy, but the idea that these drugs are produced in bright colors to attract young people may not be true.