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A tablet press, a mechanical device used to compress powder into tablets, is displayed next to a poster showing emojis used to sell drugs online, at the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, on July 13, 2022. America's opioid crisis has reached catastrophic proportions, with over 80,000 people dying of opioid overdoses last year, most of them due to illicit synthetics such as fentanyl -- more than seven times the number a decade ago. "This is the most dangerous epidemic that we've seen," said Ray Donovan, chief of operations at the US Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA). "Fentanyl is not like any other illicit narcotic, it's that deadly instantaneously." (Photo by Agnes BUN / AFP) (Photo by AGNES BUN/AFP via Getty Images)