Fentanyl in disguise: expert calls deadly opioid's presence a 'slow-motion chemical weapon attack'

Experts are warning of the dangers of fentanyl in various disguised forms, such as rainbow fentanyl, or on objects. The illicit opioid is deadly in small amounts.

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"You can make a lot of money by doing good — by providing services and food and creations that are beneficial to humanity in all types of ways. ...Instead, [drug manufacturers and smugglers] are participating in evil in order to advance a … method or a movement in order to disrupt the United States as much as possible. It is a slow-motion chemical weapon attack, I think, that's being perpetrated by China and a third opium war," Jim Rauh, founder of the nonprofit organization Families Against Fentanyl, told Fox News Digital.

Rauh, who lost his son to fentanyl poisoning and has since dedicated his career to educating Americans on the dangers of the drug, believes U.S. adversaries are using the illicit opioid to target Americans, and their attempts to do so will get more aggressive over time.