The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) began warning in 2021 of an alarming rise in the sale of counterfeit pills laced with fentanyl, which is a synthetic opioid 50 to 100 times more potent than morphine. On top of that, the pandemic also led to an increase in opioid use, including fentanyl, and overdose deaths are now reaching nearly 100,000…