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when street drug dealers mixed inexpensive and harmless substances like powdered sugar, corn starch, powdered milk, or baby formula into heroin or cocaine. One of the deadliest changes to occur in recent years is the dealer switch from making their drugs weaker to making them stronger by adding fentanyl. What is the motive for dealers to mix fentanyl with heroin and cocaine? Even if they don’t tell customers, the mixture causes stronger, faster, and more addictive “highs.” Although fatal overdoses can occur in as little as a minute, dealers are willing to take the chance that instead of killing their customers, they will make them even more addicted.

A drug-cutting table, used for processing fentanyl. Because fentanyl is inexpensive to make, it is often added to drugs like heroin and cocaine to increase their potency and make the illegal drugs more profitable for the dealers.

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Fentanyl: The World's Deadliest Drug