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| Happy Halloween, USA TODAY readers! I'm John Riley, editor of The Short List weekend edition✨. Today we're taking a break from the serious stuff and reveling in America's annual celebration of spooky. Put on your fright mask and grab your candy bag!😱 |
| But first, on a serious note ... |
No, rainbow fentanyl is not a Halloween trick |
| On Aug. 30, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration put out a PSA warning that illicit pills of the powerful opioid fentanyl were being dyed "to look like candy to children and young people." Soon after, Republican National Committee chair Ronna McDaniel said in a Fox News interview that parents were worried that rainbow fentanyl pills were going to be in Halloween baskets , according to Joel Best, a criminal justice professor at the University of Delaware, who has spent decades studying the scare of tainted Halloween treats. |
| "This is idiotic," Best said. "Nobody's going to give it away to small children." |
| Best said in all his years of studying, he has found no evidence of poisoned or fake candy harming children on Halloween, aside from when a Texas father poisoned his son's Halloween candy in the 1970s. |
| If a parent has concerns, experts say, they can simply let kids have only packaged, branded candy.🍬 |
Enjoy these tasty Halloween reads |
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| There are more terrific reads below.👇 Have a great weekend and a brilliant Halloween!🎃 |
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