According to the National Institutes of Health’s (NIH) National Institute on Drug Abuse, the illegal use of fentanyl and other synthetic opioids began a meteoric rise beginning in 2013-2014, causing the deaths of approximately 7,000 drug users.
In 2016-2017 that death count had reach…
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