ArmInfo.As a result of operational work and analysis, an unprecedented amount of fentanyl narcotic drug smuggling in was prevented. Rustam Badasyan, head of the State Revenue Committee of Armenia, announced on Facebook.
"Using fentanyl is extremely dangerous. Fentanyl has the highest overdose death rate compared to other drugs," he said. As Badasyan notes, according to the official publications of the US Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), 6 out of 10 fentanyl tablets contain a lethal dose, and according to statistics, about 72,000 citizens have died from "fentanyl" in the United States of America in 2022, and this figure increases every year.
The effect of exposure to fentanyl is 50 times stronger than heroin, and 100 times stronger than morphine, Rustam Badasyan emphasizes.