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Shocking data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has shown that more U.S. adults between the ages of 18 and 45 died of fentanyl overdoses since 2020 than COVID-19, automobile accidents, suicide and cancer combined.
Buried in the CDC data:
đšFentanyl poisoning is now the #1 Cause of Death Among Americans 18-45đšSurpassing Suicide, Covid-19 and Car accidentshttps://t.co/oCOlNgWN8W
— Families Against Fentanyl (@FafFentanyl) December 16, 2021
There were 37,208 overdose deaths in 2020 and 41,587 overdose deaths in 2021. Comparatively, there were over 53,000 COVID deaths throughout the same period.