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Fentanyl, drug overdoses in US surged by 279 percent

By Sara Carter Staff

 

The UK’s Independent published a report titled “More American Indians and Black Americans died from a pandemic surge in fentanyl overdoses than any other group.” Specifically, between 2016 and 2021 drug overdose deaths rose by a horrific 279 per cent.

Independent reports “nearly 70,000 people died from fentanyl-linked drug overdoses in 2021 alone, marking a nearly four-fold increase in fentanyl-linked deaths within five years, according to a new report from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.”

Fatal overdoses from drugs reached to over 108,000 in 2021; roughly two-thirds of all overdose deaths now involve fentanyl, according to the CDC

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