A single fraudulent pill could contain a lethal dose of the drug fentanyl — the opioid that has led to over 70,000 fatal overdoses.
David and Kate Gibbons received the worst news imaginable when police arrived at their door to say their 19 year-old daughter had died of an overdose after taking just one pill that she believed to be the potent painkiller Percocet.
Tragically, the pill, purchased by a friend over social media, was in fact pure fentanyl. Just two milligrams of the deadly drug – equal to about 15 grains of table salt – is a lethal dose.
