JUST IN: More than 107,600 Americans died from drug overdoses last year, the highest annual death toll on record, the CDC says.
Overdose-related deaths were already increasing before the pandemic struck, but there was"clearly a very sharp uptick during the pandemic," said Joseph Friedman, an addiction researcher at the University of California, Los Angeles. Hein April that found drug overdose deaths among teenagers rose sharply over the last two years.
Methamphetamine was implicated in 32,856 overdose deaths, cocaine in 24,538 deaths, and prescription pain medications in 13,503 deaths.Friedman said that illicitly manufactured fentanyl, in particular, is a huge problem in the U.S., as it can be packaged as pills.laced with fentanyl following the death of a student.
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