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Our country is in the grips of a deadly opioid epidemic.
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Our investigative producer Leslie Marcus uncovered
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the deadliest part of this tragedy,
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the black market pill industry.
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In Los Angeles, I'm heading to San Diego
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where the San Ysidro port of entry lives.
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It's the largest port in the nation and the DEA says
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this is where the fentanyl and counterfeit pain pills
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are coming across our borders from Mexico.
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(dramatic music)
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We're at the undisclosed location right now,
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about to meet special agent Amy Roderick.
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Agent Amy asked us not to have our cameras rolling
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while following her to the location,
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so we're going to go dark right now.
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Put in perspective to me this new trend you're seeing
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which is fentanyl and why it's so much more dangerous.
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Fentanyl is so dangerous because it's 30
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to 50 times stronger than heroin.
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A kilogram of fentanyl here in San Diego,
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which is the cheapest in the United States,
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would go anywhere from $31,000 to $35,000.
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Once you take that same kilo and you sell it in somewhere
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like Boston, Massachusetts, the price jacks up
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to double that.
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Tell me how the fentanyl is being dispersed
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throughout this entire country.
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The Mexican cartels are sending the fentanyl up
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through the traditional smuggling routes right
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here in San Ysidro and Otay Mesa.
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They can send it up in vehicles, they can send it across
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with people, they could put it in people's luggage,
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so there's no real limit to the ways they can get
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their drugs across here in San Diego
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and then from there they go everywhere in the United States.
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If you were a cartel down in Mexico and you had
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an industrial pill press, the pill press will create
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thousands of pills per hour.
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You can illegally buy these on the Internet
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to make these look as real as possible, to trick people
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into taking these fraudulent prescription pills
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containing fentanyl.
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Can you explain to me how much harder it is
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to manufacture heroin versus make fentanyl
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and why that's also fueling this crisis.
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If you were a Mexican drug cartel interested
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in profit only, you're harvesting poppies from seed
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to harvest, that's obviously a very long wait.
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Not only that, you need to man power to go
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and harvest the paste from the poppy, bring it to a lab
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and manufacture that into heroin.
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If you are buying precursor chemicals from China,
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you can basically have a couple of buckets, mix,
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and you have fentanyl and you ship that right across.
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There's no harvest, there's no man power.
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Obviously, a lot better financially.
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There are small time labs that can purchase chemicals
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directly from China over the Internet or the dark net
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and then they can manufacture the fentanyl
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or make fraudulent prescription pills containing fentanyl
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and there's no way to regulate them, it's just someone
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who has no chemical background with some blenders.
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What kind of counterfeit pain pills are you finding
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the fentanyl in?
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Oxycodone, Norco's, but we've also seen it in drugs
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such as Xanax, which is not an opioid.
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Pill shopping for any kind of drug on the street is
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like playing Russian roulette.
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What I want to do right now Leslie is take you
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into our DEA lab to show you how powerful
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and deadly this fentanyl really is.
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Before we get started, I want you to get suited up.
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Two milligrams is considered a lethal dosage of fentanyl.
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It's really hard to actually see.
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Just this amount can kill a human being?
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Just this amount is enough to kill a human being.
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To put it in context, a packet of sweetener contains
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about one gram of material.
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If you had fentanyl of one gram amount, that would be
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500 lethal dosages.
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When I'm actually handling fentanyl, I have
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to protect myself, so I have NarCan just in case
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I might have cross exposure.
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What he's going to show us is 20 kilograms
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of what was thought to be cocaine,
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it actually is laced with fentanyl.
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Wow.
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How many counterfeit pain pills could this create?
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The amount could take out 2,000,000 people.
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2,000,000 people.
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Everything you see right here, they look just
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like the real thing, more than 20,000 Oxycodone
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which are the most popular pain pills on the streets.
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The one on the left is a real Oxycodone and the one
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on the right is a fake one.
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These tablets have really good quality and even
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to a trained analyst, I can't tell the difference.
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If each one contains some fentanyl, then potentially
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10,000 tablets could be thousands of lethal dosages.
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