Skip advert "We're coming into Halloween and every mom in the country is worried, 'What if this gets into my kid's Halloween basket?'" Here are some facts, fears, and fanciful fictions surrounding rainbow fentanyl: Is "rainbow fentanyl" a real thing? "Rainbow fentanyl" is a name coined by the media — or perhaps an Oregon sheriff's department — but the "brightly colored fentanyl and fentanyl pills" are "addictive and potentially deadly," the Drug Enforcement Administration said in a late-August press release. "Drug policy experts contacted by NPR agree there's no new fentanyl threat this Halloween," Brian Mann writes at NPR News. Your kids are not at danger of getting rainbow fentanyl on Halloween.

Source: Washington Post October 15, 2022 09:18 UTC