Fentanyl overdose deaths claiming thousands of American lives; what is behind the rise?
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Fentanyl-related overdose deaths have skyrocketed in recent years largely due to cheaper costs for producers in Mexico and consumers in the United States.
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But it wasn’t until roughly the past decade that the drug made its way onto the black market and truly began destroying lives and communities across the U.S.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that more than 108,000 people in the U.S. died of drug overdoses between February 2021 and February 2022. Of those, more than 70% involved fentanyl and other synthetic opioids.
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