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By ANITA SNOWPosted: Feb. 14, 2019 7:00 amTUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Aaron Francisco Chavez swallowed at least one of the sky blue pills at a Halloween party before falling asleep forever. He became yet another victim killed by a flood of illicit fentanyl smuggled from Mexico into the Southwest — a profitable new business for drug gangs that has pushed the synthetic opioid to the top spot for fatal U.S. overdoses.
Three others at the party in Tucson also took the pills nicknamed "Mexican oxy" and police flagged down by partygoers saved them by administering naloxone overdose reversal medication. But the treatment came too late for Chavez, who died at age 19.
The four thought they were taking oxycodone, a much less powerful opioid, investigators believe. The death of Chavez and many others, officials said, illustrate how Arizona and other southwestern states bordering Mexico have become a hot spot in the nation's fentanyl crisis. Fentanyl deaths tripled in Arizona alone from 2015 through 2017.
"It's the worst I've seen in 30 years, this toll that it's taken on families," said Doug Coleman, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration special agent in charge of Arizona. "The crack (cocaine) crisis was not as bad."

We are engaged in a chemical war involving fentanyl or the meth precursor, from abroad; likely a state actor. meth purity is way up, meth cost way down; ditto for fentanyl.

People are confused, they think this is the usual curable recreational drug. No, they are victims of chemical warfare, their high schools are becoming triage units, and entire neighborhoods wiped out, families crushed.  Political correctness is a serious delusion right now, it is uder the cover of political correctness, and likely bribery, that this happens.

Change the rehab culture, focus on counter insurgency, get the kids involved early in learning about cartel chemical warfare, and its dangers.  We leave these kids and parents defenseless, one night with a few hits on the pipe; a few fentanyl; and you have family disaster. Be honest with the parents, dump the political correctness. You will see huge, widespread, literal carnage; a serious walking zombie problem.