Fentanyl driving surge in drug deaths: CDC figures show the drug was involved in HALF of opioid overdoses last year

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Fentanyl deaths are now responsible for more than half of the US’s fatal opioid overdoses, new CDC data suggest.

The synthetic opioid has become increasingly popular in the US since 2013, and this has been blamed on the fact that it is frequently imported from China and Mexico. Fentanyl can be up to 50 times stronger than heroin.

The agency’s new report provides details on how prominent the drug has become during America’s worst drug crisis in modern history.

In some states where the crisis has hit the hardest in the Northeast, the drug now accounts for more than 70 percent of opioid-related deaths.

The report makes clear the grim dangers of the continued failed attempts at limiting the drug epidemic.

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