Fentanyl contributes to increase of overdose deaths during the COVID019 pandemic

on November 1, 2021

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The National Institute on Drug Abuse revealed that fentanyl is the leading cause of overdose deaths in America. The CDC noted that from June 2019 through May 2020, an increase of synthetic opioid deaths grew by 38.4%.