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The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) said Tuesday that it confiscated enough fentanyl to kill every American in 2022.
The agency said that it seized more than 10,000 pounds of fentanyl powder and 50.6 million illegal fentanyl tablets this year, accounting for a total of some 379 million potentially lethal doses of the synthetic opioid in a year when it was responsible for thousands of deaths in the country.
According to a Washington Post investigation, fentanyl overdose is the leading cause of death for Americans between the ages of 18 and 49…