Fentanyl dealers increasingly facing homicide charges over overdose deaths

As the fentanyl crisis continues across the country, a new task force in Los Angeles is holding dealers accountable —not for selling drugs, but for murder.

As Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department Lieutenant Bobby Dean explains, fentanyl provides an "extremely potent high, it is dirt cheap and it is incredibly easy to get."

He also warned, "It's a hundred times more powerful than morphine. And it will kill you in an instant if you get a bad batch."