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Getting started this Monday, it's considered one of the most dangerous drugs in the world. It factors in heavily to the heroin¹ epidemic² we've reported on in the U.S. But it's also blamed for deaths in Europe, Africa, and Australia.

Fentanyl is a manmade painkiller³. The United Nations recently put restrictions⁴ on some of the chemicals used to make it. It says fentanyl is the strongest painkiller in existence for medical use, but then it's also highly addictive⁵ and especially dangerous when abused because it's so powerful, many times stronger than even heroin itself.

Fentanyl used to be found only in pharmacies⁶. Now, it's showing up in counterfeit⁷ pills, much of what's being sold on the black market contains fentanyl. It's much more potent⁸ than prescription⁹ medications and it's killing¹⁰ people who take it.

One challenge for U.S. officials who are trying to stop its spread, the actual machines used to make the pills. They're arriving on American shores in record numbers and they're contributing to overdoses in every corner of the country.