American Drug Overdoses Reach All-Time High

Wall Street Journal: More than 107,000 people in the U.S. died from drug overdoses last year, preliminary Centers for Disease Control and Prevention data released Wednesday showed, roughly a 15% increase from 2020. The proliferation of the potent synthetic opioid fentanyl has been compounded by the destabilizing effects of the Covid-19 pandemic on users and people in recovery, according to health authorities and treatment providers. The U.S. has recorded more than one million overdose deaths since 2000, and more than half of those came in the past seven years (Wall Street Journal). 

USA Today: Experts say illicitly manufactured fentanyl is often mixed with cocaine, methamphetamine or even counterfeit prescription opioids sold on the street. People who intend to buy non-opioid street drugs might have no idea they are getting a toxic combination cut with fentanyl. And for a person who has built no tolerance for opioids, whether prescription pain pills, heroin or street fentanyl, taking street drugs cut with fentanyl can be fatal (USA Today). 

Dan Crenshaw: Our open border -and the fentanyl pouring across it – is killing Americans in record numbers. Biden doesn’t care. They only care what the radical immigration groups think, not you (Twitter).