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This Killer Opioid Could Become a Weapon of Mass DestructionAnna EdneyDecember 12 2018, 5:00 AMDecember 12 2018, 10:42 PM(Bloomberg) -- It would take only 118 pounds of fentanyl to kill 25 million people.That’s how much of the powerful opioid painkiller Nebraska State Trooper Sam Mortensen found in April when he stopped a truck marked “U.S. Mail” swerving onto the shoulder along Interstate 80.Rolling up the trailer door revealed an empty hold. But just below a refrigeration unit, behind a plastic panel secured with mismatched bolts, Mortensen found 42 brick-shaped packages, weighing 54 kilograms, full of fentanyl. The drug is so potent that even a small amount — the equivalent of a few grains of salt — can be lethal.. . .go read the rest.
As I learn more and more about America's opioid epidemic my mind drifts to The Walking Dead TV series if SHTF or TEOTWAWKI.