Nebraska authorities seized 118 pounds of fentanyl – a highly addictive opiate – during a routine truck stop last month. Nebraska State Patrol said Thursday that the seizure was the largest in the state’s history, and “one of the largest ever in the U.S.”The quantity was enough to kill more than 26 million people, the Kansas City Star reported. A state trooper had observed a suspicious semi the morning of April 26 in Kearney, about 200 miles west of Omaha. Fentanyl is a highly addictive opioid that is “30-50 times more potent than heroin and 50-100 times more potent than morphine,” according to the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration. California recorded 746 fatal overdoses from fentanyl in 2017 versus 237 in 2016, the San Francisco Chronicle reported.

Source: Fox News May 25, 2018 10:41 UTC