If you were to ask yourself when America has faced the very worst drug crisis in its history the answer would be right now.
For the first time in U.S. history, fatal overdoses peaked above 112,000 deaths, with young people and people of color among the hardest hit.
Drug policy experts, and people living with addiction, say the magnitude of this calamity now eclipses every previous drug epidemic, from crack cocaine in the 1980s to the prescription opioid crisis of the 2000s.
Public health experts say fentanyl, a synthetic opioid far more powerful than heroin, is responsible for the majority of drug deaths. But the supply of illegal drugs is increasingly complex and perilous…
Drug deaths first began to soar in the U.S. in early 2020 – from an already devastating 65,000 a year – to what policy makers fear is a new baseline of more than 110,000 a year.
Fentanyl is mostly manufactured by…
