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Attorney General Ashley Moody is offering resources about the dangers of fentanyl. The powerful opioid is turning up in drugs like marijuana.

Mexican cartels are trafficking "rainbow" fentanyl in pills, powder and even blocks that resemble sidewalk chalk, officials say.

The plan is for health departments in all 67 counties to have kits with two Narcan nasal sprays that can be administered without a health care provider.

Like fentanyl, eutylone is often mixed with other drugs so people don't realize they're taking it until it's too late.

Overdoses linked to fentanyl are rising exponentially in Florida, according to the state department of health. Doctors say the epidemic is now disproportionately affecting people of color.

The initiative, which includes the first statewide director of opioid recovery, is based on a pilot treatment program in Palm Beach County that state health officials touted as a success.

These steps follow recent deaths in Gadsden County from fentanyl overdoses that prompted first lady Casey DeSantis to call for a meeting to work out strategies to promote increased awareness.

It's not the only one that’s happened recently, as four West Point cadets overdosed after ingesting Fentanyl that was likely mislabeled as something else.

Gadsden County Sheriff Morris Young who says "fentanyl wasn't in our vocabulary," prior to last weekend.

She said the state will increase messaging as part of efforts to prevent future mass overdoses.

It was a deadly weekend involving drugs in Gadsden County. The sheriff’s office handled a spike of fentanyl overdoses, most of them on Friday. Nine people died.

The law could result in methamphetamine dealers facing a death sentence if drugs they distribute kills someone.