Florida has largest spike in fentanyl seizures for 2023, Ashley Moody vows ‘we are fighting back’

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. – Attorney General Ashley Moody said Florida law enforcement is cracking down on fentanyl in the state as reports show a continued national rise in exposure.

New data shows that, in 2023, law enforcement confiscated over 115 million pills containing fentanyl across the country. Under the the presidency of Donald Trump, authorities only confiscated around four million.

“This damning report shows the deadly impact of Biden’s wide-open border—record-smashing amounts of fentanyl flooding in and an extremely-high death toll to accompany the massive influx of this Mexican poison,” Moody said in a press release.

A report found that Florida had the biggest increase of fentanyl seizures in 2023.

“In Florida, we are fighting back the death and destruction emanating from Biden’s border crisis—leading the nation in fentanyl seizures and taking Biden to court in an effort to force him to do his job: close the border and protect the American people,” she said.

Moody’s office reported how Florida law enforcement have participated in 2,089 fentanyl seizure operations from 2017 to 2023, the most of any state in the U.S.

It reflected on how, in October of 2022, Moody reported that the state had already confiscated enough fentanyl to kill the entirety of Florida’s population.

The office warned how deadly fentanyl is and how it can be found in various illicit substances.

The state has worked not only on combatting the epidemic by controlling it in the streets, but also by implementing preventative measures and resources to help people become aware and alert of the drug’s dangers.

The “One Pill Can Kill” webpage on DoseOfRealityFL.com provides informational resources, as well as opioid addiction services.

Additionally, Moody launched the Helping Heroes program, providing free naloxone to emergency response agencies.