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Fentanyl now the main reason for dying in adults 18-45
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The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is marking Could 10 as “Nationwide Fentanyl Consciousness Day” to carry extra folks’s consideration to overdose deaths throughout the U.S.
“Fentanyl is the only deadliest drug menace our nation has ever encountered,” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram mentioned in an announcement. “Fentanyl is all over the place. From massive metropolitan areas to rural America, no group is protected from this poison. We should take each alternative to unfold the phrase to forestall the fentanyl-related overdoses claiming scores of American lives on daily basis.”
A reporter holds up an instance of the quantity of fentanyl that may be lethal after a information convention about deaths from fentanyl publicity, at DEA Headquarters in Arlington, Va.
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Fentanyl is an artificial opioid 50 occasions stronger than heroin and 100 occasions stronger than morphine. Authorities say drug traffickers are more and more mixing fentanyl with different illicit medication to drive habit and create repeat clients.
It was initially developed as an analgesic – or painkiller – for surgical procedure. It has a selected chemical construction with a number of areas that may be modified, typically illicitly, to kind associated compounds with marked variations in efficiency.
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Overdose deaths roughly quadrupled, going from 8,050 in 1999 to 33,091 in 2015. From Could 2020 to April 2021, greater than 100,000 Individuals died from a drug overdose, with over 64% of those deaths as a consequence of artificial opioids like fentanyl and its analogs.
Officers stroll previous photographs of unlawful medication exterior the Edward R. Roybal Federal Constructing, Could 13, 2021, in Los Angeles.
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Between November 2020 and November 2021, greater than 107,000 folks died of drug overdoses within the U.S., in response to the Facilities for Illness Management and Prevention (CDC). Round 66% of these deaths concerned artificial opioids like fentanyl, although many individuals who do overdose weren’t conscious they have been taking fentanyl.
In response to the DEA solely two milligrams of fentanyl is taken into account a “probably deadly dose,” and is especially harmful for somebody who doesn’t have a tolerance to opioids.
The Related Press contributed to this report.
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