SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (Dakota News Now) - Just a couple of weeks ago, Emily’s Hope shared data that showed South Dakota holding the second-lowest opioid overdose death rate in the country.

But the concerns of fentanyl in the streets of Sioux Falls and Rapid City and everywhere in between continue to grow. Unfortunately, there is another synthetic opioid, much more potent and much more dangerous than Fentanyl, they are called Nitazenes.

The DEA identified 18 reports of Nitazenes from 1999 to 2004, then zero for the next 15 years.

Since 2019, seven thousand reports have been identified, a growing concern for a drug 10 to 40 times more potent than fentanyl.

“What people don’t know is that you don’t know what you don’t know. You might be getting a pill, it’s pressed, it looks like Xanax, it

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