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According to police in Australia, they seized more than 5 million fentanyl pills, the largest opioid cargo the country has ever seen.
According to CNN, the tablets were hidden in a lathe, an industrial item that arrived in Melbourne from Canada in December 2021.
They didn’t dig into it until February, when Australian Border Force inspectors uncovered an 11-drug stash.
30kg of methamphetamine and 2kg of fentanyl, an addictive painkiller 50-100 times stronger than pure morphine.
Acting Commander Anthony Hall stated at a press conference on Monday that it is unusual to find this medicine outside of clinical use in Australia, and the 11kg seizure is of great concern to the Australian people.
Previously, Australian investigators have only found minor shipments of 30 kilogrammes or less of fentanyl illegally brought into the country, according to an AFP press release.
While fentanyl is largely used for medical purposes in Australia, it is regularly mixed with other narcotics such as heroin in other nations, with sometimes deadly results. The increased use of fentanyl in the United States has been related to an increase in overdose deaths.
Police in Australia recover 5 million narcotic doses hidden in a warehouse.
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