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  2. Fentanyl - Wikipedia

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    In the US, fentanyl and fentanyl analogs caused over 29,000 deaths in 2017, a large increase over the previous four years. [87] [88] A package of 30 lozenges, 600 mcg of fentanyl, each. Some increases in fentanyl deaths do not involve prescription fentanyl but are related to illicitly made fentanyl that is being mixed with or sold as heroin. [89]

  3. United States drug overdose death rates and totals over time

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    Drug overdose deaths in the US per 100,000 people by state. [1] [2] A two milligram dose of fentanyl powder (on pencil tip) is a lethal amount for most people. [3] The United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has data on drug overdose death rates and totals. Around 1,106,900 US residents died from drug overdoses from 1968 ...

  4. ‘Substantial amount’ of fentanyl gets smuggled through legal ...

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    A primary factor contributing to the fentanyl crisis in the United States may be the smuggling of the drug through legal trade flows, according to a report by the National Bureau of Economic ...

  5. A fentanyl antidote is saving lives. But it isn’t ... - AOL

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    In that time, he says, the average amount of the drug in each fentanyl tablet has dropped from 2.3 milligrams to 2 milligrams. Oulton says the drop in purity is closely correlated to the fall in ...

  6. Canada is central to Trump's tariff talk. The reasons why are ...

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    "Fentanyl manufactured by the Mexican cartels is the main driver behind the ongoing epidemic of drug poisoning deaths in the United States," read the agency's 2024 National Drug Threat Assessment ...

  7. Opioid epidemic in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In the United States, there were approximately 109,600 drug-overdose-related deaths in the 12-month period ending January 31, 2023, at a rate of 300 deaths per day. [6] From 1999 to 2020, nearly 841,000 people died from drug overdoses, [ 7 ] with prescription and illicit opioids responsible for 500,000 of those deaths. [ 8 ]

  8. Drug Enforcement Administration - Wikipedia

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    An estimated 19,416 individuals died of a drug overdose in the United States in the first 3 months of 2020 compared with 16,682 in the same 3-month period in 2019; this trend was fueled by synthetic opioids (especially illicitly manufactured fentanyl and analogs).

  9. US government says it plans to go after legal goods tied to ...

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    The trade has evolved from 2016 when fentanyl was entering primarily via mail, concealed in envelopes, to now when machinery, dyes, and other materials are arriving via ships and planes to the ...