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18-11-2021, 10:21 AM
Analysis by Zachary B. Wolf, CNN
Updated 0058 GMT (0858 HKT) November 18, 2021
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From May 2020 through April 2021, more than 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the US
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Synthetic opioids like fentanyl -- a painkiller 50-100 times more potent than morphine -- accounted for the bulk of those drug overdose deaths: around 64,000.
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Illegal drugs are often made to look like prescription pills, available online and sold through social media
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A scant 2 milligrams can be deadly, and they're often cut in with counterfeit Oxycontin, Percocet or other drugs.
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An estimated 10.1 million Americans ages 12 and above misused opioids in 2019, including 9.7 million prescription pain reliever abusers and 745,000 heroin users
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There's the 28-year-old man in Northern California who died after taking a fake pain pill that contained fentanyl.
There's the 11-month-old baby left unsupervised in North Carolina who died from a fentanyl overdose. Her mother and grandmother are facing charges. (While searching on Google for specific cases of fentanyl deaths, I saw reports on a lot of toddlers eating their parents' pills: A 15-month old's father charged in his overdose death in Southern California. A mother of a 1-year-old in Alabama arrested after the child overdosed.)
There's the family of a prisoner in Alabama who died of a fentanyl overdose but didn't find out until months later.
There's the teenager outside Los Angeles who bought what he thought were prescription painkillers from a friend of a friend and died from fentanyl poisoning.
There's the 25-year-old woman in Las Vegas who thought she was buying Percocet but died after taking fake pills with fentanyl.
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Chemicals used to make the drug are often shipped from China to the US or Mexico for production by drug cartels in Mexico and then smuggled to the US.
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A Chinese government crackdown on fentanyl has slowed this method. India is another source of fentanyl in the US.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/17/polit...index.html
Updated 0058 GMT (0858 HKT) November 18, 2021
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From May 2020 through April 2021, more than 100,000 people died from drug overdoses in the US
......
Synthetic opioids like fentanyl -- a painkiller 50-100 times more potent than morphine -- accounted for the bulk of those drug overdose deaths: around 64,000.
......
Illegal drugs are often made to look like prescription pills, available online and sold through social media
......
A scant 2 milligrams can be deadly, and they're often cut in with counterfeit Oxycontin, Percocet or other drugs.
......
An estimated 10.1 million Americans ages 12 and above misused opioids in 2019, including 9.7 million prescription pain reliever abusers and 745,000 heroin users
......
There's the 28-year-old man in Northern California who died after taking a fake pain pill that contained fentanyl.
There's the 11-month-old baby left unsupervised in North Carolina who died from a fentanyl overdose. Her mother and grandmother are facing charges. (While searching on Google for specific cases of fentanyl deaths, I saw reports on a lot of toddlers eating their parents' pills: A 15-month old's father charged in his overdose death in Southern California. A mother of a 1-year-old in Alabama arrested after the child overdosed.)
There's the family of a prisoner in Alabama who died of a fentanyl overdose but didn't find out until months later.
There's the teenager outside Los Angeles who bought what he thought were prescription painkillers from a friend of a friend and died from fentanyl poisoning.
There's the 25-year-old woman in Las Vegas who thought she was buying Percocet but died after taking fake pills with fentanyl.
......
Chemicals used to make the drug are often shipped from China to the US or Mexico for production by drug cartels in Mexico and then smuggled to the US.
......
A Chinese government crackdown on fentanyl has slowed this method. India is another source of fentanyl in the US.
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/17/polit...index.html
