RAIDED LAB MAY HAVE MADE LETHAL HEROIN

CHICAGO - U.S. drug czar John Walters said Monday that federal agents
and the Mexican government, have closed a lab in Mexico that might be
the main source of the powerful painkiller fentanyl that has killed
heroin users in eight states.

Walters, the director of the White House Office of National Drug
Control Policy, said it's still not clear whether the fentanyl was
mixed with heroin at the lab in Mexico or after it entered the United
States. Fentanyl-laced cocaine also has turned up in some cities, he said.

He warned drug users that millions of deadly doses of fentanyl-laced
heroin might still be on the streets. The mixture has caused at least
100 confirmed deaths from Philadelphia to Chicago in recent months.
Fentanyl might also be coming from other sources, he said.

Deaths from fentanyl-laced drugs have occurred in Illinois, Michigan,
Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware and Maryland, Walters said.