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The Orange County Register
The Orange County Register
National
Tony Saavedra

Drug dealers targeting children with candy-colored fentanyl pills, DEA says

Fentanyl is one of the deadliest drugs on the street — and now it's also pretty.

Drug traffickers are making rainbow-colored fentanyl that in pill form resembles candy — think SweeTarts — and in block form looks like sidewalk chalk, according to a U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration alert.

Federal officials say the candy-colored fentanyl is a deliberate attempt to market the drug to children and young adults.

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