US issues alert for detection of methamphetamine pills

The United States government sent an alert this Tuesday specifying that the Mexican cartels are putting methamphetamines into pills, in an attempt to generate more addictions among consumers who are not yet addicted.

"Something else I hadn't seen is that they're now putting methamphetamine in pills. This is the first time we've seen it in pill form. Now, a methamphetamine pill may not kill you instantly, but it can make you so addicted that it can destroy you ", assured the Attorney General of the United States, Pam Bondi, during an event at the headquarters of the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). The cartels, she insisted, "put the drugs in pills to go after our boys ".

"We will not rest until these Foreign Terrorist Organizations are eliminated, until their members are prosecuted or deported (from the US), and citizens are safe again," he stated, without specifying which cartels are behind the production of methamphetamine pills. For the time being, methamphetamine was distributed in powder or crystal form.

According to Bondi, so far in 2025, more than 29 tons of methamphetamines, reaching the level of all of 2024.

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Bondi praised the passage of U.S. President Donald Trump's tax plan, noting that it will provide more funding to law enforcement agencies in their war on drugs. The law allocates $3.3 billion to the fight against drug trafficking.

At the same event, Thomas Murphy, acting head of the DEA, mentioned that from 2024 the drug cartels They began trafficking methamphetamine pills.

"Taking a pill has much less stigma than injecting yourself, injecting a drug into your arm, snorting it, smoking it, but that makes it much more dangerous, because it is less threatening to our young people," he warned.

He also spoke about how Mexican drug traffickers smuggled drugs in crates carrying cucumbers; according to him, if it weren't for DEA intelligence, the drugs would have gone undetected.

"Unless they knew they were looking for this, there's no way they would have found it " Murphy said.

On the July 4th holiday weekend, he detailed, they seized 71 kilograms of fentanyl and 20 kilograms of methamphetamines in Columbia; in Fresno, California, agents seized 24 pounds of carfentanil.

"We believe it was a concerted effort that they inundated us because they thought there would be less law enforcement working at that time [because of the Independence Day holiday], and they sent everything they could across the border in numerous cities, it didn't work out well for them ", he noted.

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