Drug overdose

Drug overdose deaths exceed 90,000 annually in the United States, due to abuse of prescription drug abuse and illegal drugs:

“  |  Nearly 92,000 persons in the U.S. died from drug-involved overdose in 2020, including illicit drugs and prescription opioids.[1] |  ”

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Illegal fentanyl use -- most of it associated with a southern open border \-- has become the single biggest cause of drug overdose deaths.

“  |  The lethality of the illicit drug supply appears to have driven an exponential rise in the overdose death rate among U.S. teens amid the COVID-19 pandemic – an increase that’s come without a parallel surge in drug use itself.[2] |  ”

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Addiction is the cause of most drug overdoses.

## References[edit]

1. ↑ https://nida.nih.gov/research-topics/trends-statistics/overdose-death-rates
2. ↑ https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2022-04-12/teen-overdose-deaths-have-soared-but-drug-use-hasnt