Date uploaded: 2022-10-26 12:54:50

A cautionary tale has developed a new twist this year, as an alarming opioid has become the latest drug feared to be lurking inside trick-or-treat hauls for Halloween. It's been an annual tradition for people to raise concerns of drugs like marijuana edibles or dangerous objects such as needles to be inside candy for the holiday. Rainbow fentanyl has become the latest concern for some Americans since the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration put out a PSA on Aug. 30, warning the colorful opioid is "made to look like candy to children and young people." But in all his decades studying the scare of tainted Halloween treats, Joel Best, a sociology and criminal justice professor at the University of Delaware, has found no evidence of poisoned or fake candy harming or killing children on Halloween aside from when a Texas father poisoned his son's Halloween candy in the 1970s. He doesn't expect anything to happen this time around. Go to the link in bio to read more. #halloween #halloweencandy #trickortreat