The Drug Enforcement Administration has said that reports of fake Halloween candy laced with fentanyl are largely overblown. Andree Swanson with the DEA in St. Louis said drugs in your kids’ candy is not a concern.
“We have heard no actual evidence that drug traffickers are trying to put fentanyl — rainbow colored fentanyl — in candy. That’s definitely a myth,” Swanson said.
Swanson said the fear got started after reports of colorful fentanyl tablets seized in California, but she said that was probably just a way to get the drugs past inspectors. She added that drug makers are in business to make money, not give away their products for free.
Swanson does urge parents to look over their kids’ haul this Halloween, to toss anything that’s unwrapped, and to watch out for marijuana chewables, though she said those aren’t a huge concern either.
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