LOS ANGELES—The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) warned Sept. 27 that there has been a significant nationwide surge in the availability and lethality of fake prescription pills containing fentanyl and methamphetamine. “We want to save lives and protect the community with this important awareness campaign,” said Los Angeles Field Division Special Agent in Charge Bill Bodner. “The sad reality is that these dangerous counterfeit pills made with fentanyl are having deadly consequences not just in Los Angeles, but nationwide. As individuals are being deceived and families are grieving the loss of loved ones, drug dealers profit,” he said. “It’s not the pill you think it is.” Fentanyl, the synthetic opioid most commonly found in counterfeit pills, is the “primary driver” of the increase in overdose deaths, the DEA reported. The DEA Los Angeles Field Division obtained about 1,217,000 counterfeit pills in all of 2020, Bodner said. Those offices acquired an estimated …