Fentanyl deaths in the US spiked 1,000 percent over 6 years: Report

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Fentanyl deaths in the US spiked 1,000 percent over 6 years: Report

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    morgan winsor

Mar 22, 2019, 1:32 PM ET
 

Deaths from the drug fentanyl in the United States climbed more than 1,000 percent from 2011 to 2016, according to a report released Thursday.

The number of fatalities involving the powerful synthetic opioid was relatively stable in 2011 and 2012, with roughly 1,600 deaths each of those years. The number began to increase in 2013, reaching just over 1,900 deaths.

Then the death rate doubled each year, skyrocketing to 18,335 overdoses in 2016, according to the report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

https://abcnews.go.com/Health/fentanyl-deaths-us-spiked-1000-percent-years-report/story?id=61865278

[Cyber Liberty]

Snap!  I have a good bureaucratic solution!  Make all opiate painkillers really hard to obtain by cracking down on little old ladies in pain.  That'll fix the problem just as surely as the rest of the War on Drugs.