This killer opioid could become a weapon of mass destruction
(WorldNews Health)

It would take only 118 pounds of fentanyl to kill 25 million people. That´s how much of the powerful opioid painkiller Nebraska State Trooper Sam Mortensen found in April when he stopped a truck marked `U.S. Mail` swerving onto the shoulder along Interstate 80. Rolling up the trailer door revealed an empty hold. But just below a refrigeration unit, behind a plastic panel secured with mismatched bolts, Mortensen found 42 brick-shaped packages, weighing 54 kilograms, full of fentanyl. The drug is so potent that even a small amount - the equivalent of a few grains of salt - can be lethal. `Is that even believable? Can you even imagine?` President Donald Trump said in October when Mortensen was...