Commentary: Treat the fentanyl crisis like a poisoning outbreak
by Bryce Pardo, Jonathan P. Caulkins and Beau Kilmer, Los Angeles Times
Sep 04, 2019
3 minutes
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recently released drug overdose statistics for 2018, and they are shocking. Of the estimated 47,000 deaths from opioids last year, roughly two-thirds involved potent synthetic opioids, most of them fentanyl.
America's fentanyl problem is far deadlier than past crises with other illegal drugs. It also has a fundamentally different character. For most victims, fentanyl was not their drug of choice. Rather, they were poisoned by dealers who mixed
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