Name: Dr. Phil on the Counterfeit Pill Problem
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Description: Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dr. Phil on the Counterfeit Pill Problem' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-28. Transcript available.

Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Dr. Phil on the Counterfeit Pill Problem' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2022-10-28. Transcript available.

- The Joe Rogan Experience.
- We have epidemics in this country right now
that people aren't paying enough attention to.
- Well, the fentanyl epidemic.
That one scares the shit out of me.
- Man.
- That one scares the shit out of me.
It really does, because people are accidentally
dying of overdoses.
It used to be if you died of an overdose,
it's because you did a dangerous drug,
you took a very risky chance to do something
that you probably knew you shouldn't be doing.
Whether it's heroin or meth or something like that.
But now people are doing things they think
are fairly innocuous.
And it's laced with fentanyl and they're dying.
- Well, just across the border,
just south of San Diego in October of '21,
they busted a drug lab that was turning out
70 million counterfeit pills a month.
One lab, 70 million counterfeit pills a month.
Now, we don't know that they were all
gonna come to America,
but we know a shitload of 'em were gonna come to America.
And the DEA's estimate is that 40% of 'em
are laced with lethal levels of fentanyl.
- 40%?
- 40% are laced with lethal doses of fentanyl.
- That poisoning, fentanyl poisoning,
is the number one cause of death
for people 18 to 49 in this country.
- Yeah.
And think about that, if, and what these kids need
to understand, and I want people to understand this.
And I don't care if you stop listening to Joe and I talk
right now and go call your kid or go call your grandkids
or your friend's kids, the chance of them, first off,
all these pills you're buying on Snapchat,
100% of 'em are counterfeit.
- They're buying pills on Snapchat?
- They're, oh.
They're buying.
- How does that work?
- You can buy a pill on Snapchat and I'll show you here.
Let me pull this up.
I know Jamie can't beat me to this.
If you do, I'm gonna really be impressed.
- He's got it.
- No, he doesn't either.
Bullshit.
- Snapchat drug dealers.
How illegal drugs are being dangled at kids on Snapchat,
Instagram, and other platforms.
Scroll down.
- I'll see if he was gonna react.
- No, I'm not reacting, I'm not reacting, I'm looking,
and I, 'cause I've got something, okay, here we go.
Like, see these Xanax bars here?
- Yeah.
- And, maybe I can send this to Jamie.
Okay, then, here are the emojis that they use
to advertise it with, and then here is the menu.
- So, who, is this cartels that are putting these things
up on Snapchat, and then you order 'em on the internet?
- Yeah, here's the deal.
Fentanyl is synthetic, and it's-
- It's all being generated in China, so if you wanna be
a conspiracy theorist, this'll get your conspiracy juices
flowing.
Are you, AirDrop Open over there?
- Yes.
- Jamie's Airbook Pro?
- Yes.
- Okay, I just sent you four pictures, and they're gone,
so now you have 'em.
Okay, it's all being generated, or synthesized in China.
And then China is sending it to the Sinaloa Cartel.
And the Cartel is then turning it in to these pills, and then these pills are
coming in to America.
And the DEA estimates that they are intercepting about 10%, and what they are
intercepting is another,
to kill every American.
- Jesus Christ.
- The fentanyl is enough to kill-
- So here's the menu.
- Every American.
- L.A. County Delivery.
- It's like-
- Can you make it to that little, there it goes.
- So L.A. County Delivery, Nationwide Shipping, Low Cost, Low Stress, Highest
Highs,
Dr. Don Guarantee, Mr. Don 248-
Christ. The fentanyl is enough to kill. So here's the menu. Every American. L.A.
County
delivery. It's like make it to that little. There it goes. So L.A. County
delivery,
nationwide shipping, low cost, low stress, highest highs. Dr. Don guarantee. Mr.
Don
248. So look at all the stuff that they have here. Perks, GMO, OG gas and edibles.
What does that mean? That's probably weed. Gas. Really? Yeah. THC crumble, snow,
Adderall,
20 milligram scripts, 2.5 milligram hulks. What are those? What's a hulk? That's
the type
of pill off the top of my head. I wouldn't know, but I'm not. Pharma pram
bottles, ambient
10 milligram scripts, hydros, 10 mil. What is a hydro? Like a hydrocodone,
maybe. I don't
know, I think. Jesus Christ. Yeah. Now go to the emojis that I sent you. It's
one of the
images I sent. And this is how they communicate. Percocet, oxycodone. So they
have these different
emojis in combination. Yeah. There's Xanax. Yeah. Mean different things. What
is that little
emoji next to those two pills that means Xanax? It looks like a truck. What
does that mean?
Delivery? Yeah. I think that means they'll deliver that to your house. This is
like Postmates.
Wow. You call, you order this and they'll deliver this to your house in less
than an hour. And
I've had different sets of parents on who's, these are kids that, and we do
pretty good background checks
on these. I'm talking about, and the title of the show we did was One Pill Kills,
because these were
not kids that were drug addicts. They weren't doing heroin and that sort of
thing. And we checked because
one of the girls, we got her credit card information. We saw she ordered one
pill. We went back like
months, ordered one pill. And she wanted to get some sleep before finals. And
we found three quarters
of the pill in her top dresser drawer. Her parents found it and the police came.
She broke it in half and
then broke it in half again. So she took a quarter of one pill and they found
her dead in the morning
because it had so much fentanyl in it that it just killed her. And this isn't
an overdose. This is
poisoning. You want to be- Do you think this is purposeful? Well, the reason
they put it in there
is because it's so highly addictive. But they're not smart or they don't care
if they're killing a
certain percentage of their customers. But here's the deal. Fentanyl is a
synthetic opioid that is up to
50 times stronger than heroin, 100 times stronger than morphine. So if you bite
into this, you're dead when
you hit the ground. And so she took a quarter of it, boom, gone. And
their estimate is that 40% of these pills that they're getting have lethal
doses of fentanyl in. The
ones that don't have enough in it that you are addicted like that. So they come
back for more and
more and more and more. And now there are conspiracy theorists, including a
former DEA guy that believes
that China is manufacturing this stuff, synthesizing this stuff, sending it to
the Sinaloa cartel who's
flooding it into America. And they're just trying to poison or drug Americans.
It's just another
attack. He believes it's a terrorist attack. And it's interesting. He has a
demo
that he does. He just takes a little packet of sweetener and dumps it in his
hand. And he says that
much fentanyl is enough to kill 500 people. It's just, it's staggering.
And we've got to get this message out to the kids. Don't do it. It, those pills
look exactly like
the pills that you get at the pharmacy. And what they're doing now, Joe, is
they're putting them
in these pastel colors. I think I sent you some of those, Jamie, in the pastel
colors. They're making
them look like these candies that the kids get. Um, and kids are going to see
these things around and pick them up and
think they're like sweet tarts or whatever and bite into them. Um, if I was a
parent, I would go to the store and buy
every kind of candy I could find. And as soon as my kids came home from trick
or treating, I would take their pumpkin and dump it into the trash and then
fill it back up with candy I knew was good and hand it back to them.
I wouldn't let them take a single piece of candy from trick or treating because
you don't know what's in there.
That was always the fear, right? When we were kids, someone was going to sneak
in.
We thought there'd be a razor blade in an apple or something.
I saw this going around, but I heard a lot of people pushing back at the couple
of days after
this was made major headlines because they were showing say, no, who's the
expert?
I don't, I'm just, it, there was a lot of, uh, hubbub about this viral picture
because this went out.
The DEA was talking about it, but then I read, there was like no evidence that
this was real.
Was that this, that's what I read.
Well, let's scroll down and see what they say in terms of, it looks like candy
DEA administrator, Alan or Ann, uh, Milgram told CBS news.
In fact, some of the drug traffickers have nicknamed it sweet tarts, Skittles.
The DEA alert didn't mention Halloween, but fears about rainbow fentanyl and
the holiday went viral.
DEA warning meets skepticism from drug experts.
Drug policy experts contacted by NPR agree there's no new fentanyl threat this
Halloween.
Many are also skeptical of the DEA's original warning.
They don't believe that Mexican drug cartels and street dealers have launched
any new campaign targeting children.
I don't see any evidence that the DEA has produced that supports that conjecture.
I don't think they're targeting children.
I think the fact that they are making these things in pastel colors make
children vulnerable to picking these things up.
You want to argue over the, the word targeting?
If a child picks up something that, you know, I, I said that young girl that I
was talking about took three quarters of a pill or one quarter of a pill and
three quarters of it was left in her drawer.
If she has a younger sister or something that sees that, picks it up and it
looks like candy and eats it, she's gone.
Right.
Yeah.
I'm not saying they're targeting.
I'm not saying they're targeting.
Yeah.
I don't care if you use the word targeting or not.
It's, it's, it's, it's dangerous.
Yeah.
And I'm just saying, I, uh, you know, my grandkids, they won't be getting any
candy out of that.
Yeah.
And it's not that anywhere they're going is going to be giving out fentanyl to
kids.
It's just, they don't know where they're, where it's coming from.
Yeah.
You don't, you're not getting it from a store.
And that makes it dangerous.
And I, my point is if you're in school and you're studying for finals and you're
not a drug addict and you think, well, one pill's not going to hurt.
That's no longer true.
You may be thinking, oh, I'll get some Adderall, get me through my finals.
That could be a fatal decision.
It won't be an overdose.
It'll be a poisoning.
It's very dangerous.
And if you're getting it from someone other than a pharmacy, there's a high
possibility.
Well, the DEA's belief is that all of the pills that you're getting on social
media are counterfeit.
And that as much as 40% of them have fatal doses of fentanyl, lethal doses of
fentanyl, because they're so unsophisticated in their mix.
So it's not a matter of poisoning as much as it's a matter of they don't give a
fuck.
And they're just, I mean, they're not like accredited labs.
These people are just mixing shit up.
They're making the stuff up in a bathtub.
They're making it up in a, you know, mixing it up.
And then they're putting it in a pill press and letting it dry and shipping it
over here.
But today on CNN, they said they arrested some, it was either CNN or Fox, one
of the two, they arrested some 14-year-olds coming across the border.
And they had a couple of thousand pills on them.
And who knows where it came from?
Who knows what else is in it?
Right.