Fentanyl is 'single greatest challenge US faces as a country', says Department of Homeland Security Secretary — with drug wiping out 75,000 Americans a year Some 75,000 Americans died in 2022 due to overdoses of the opioid The Secretary was told the fentanyl crisis must be a top priority for 2024 Narcan nasal spray that treats fentanyl overdoses now available over the counter

 

Deaths caused by fentanyl in the US surged in the 2010s. At the start of the decade, 2,666 Americans died of a fentanyl overdose. This figure shot up to 19,413 by 2016. Covid made the situation worse, with a record 72,484 deaths recorded in 2021, followed by another record of 75,000 deaths last year

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