When Gail Smith lost her son to a drug overdose in 2016, she joined an Orange County club of which nobody wants to be a member. “My son Kenny died of an accidental overdose of heroin mixed with fentanyl,” Smith told The Epoch Times. “We were told that there was enough fentanyl to kill 10 elephants.” Smith’s story is familiar to an increasing number of families and friends throughout Southern California who have lost a loved one to an accidental overdose of fentanyl—one of the most powerful opiates ever to be approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Fentanyl is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times stronger than the effects of morphine, according to the FDA, and local law enforcement agencies are confiscating illegal shipments of the drug in record numbers. Over the last five years, seizures of the drug by the Orange County Sheriff’s …