According to reports, 100,000 Americans died from drug overdose within 12 months-this is not just the sum of gun violence and car accidents, because the use of fentanyl has soared

#室友，The COVID-19 pandemic has witnessed the rise of many things, but perhaps the most deadly Fentanyl Drug abuse has reached a new level tragically. According to a new report from health officials, 100,000 Americans have died from drug overdose, especially during the 12 months of the pandemic’s worst, fentanyl use increased by 30%.

@NYTimes reported that the National Center for Health Statistics recently released Disturbing discovery Regarding drug overdose during the pandemic. During the 12-month period ending in April of this year, it was revealed that more than 100,000 Americans died from drug overdose, an increase of nearly 30% from 2019. This also means that for the first time in American history, more people have died from drug overdose than gun violence and car accidents combined. The main reason for the overdose of the new drug is related to the widely used fentanyl, which is not only used as a stand-alone drug, but also used in combination with other drugs.

Fentanyl is 100 times more potent than morphine and is often added to various other drugs to enhance its effectiveness. Dr. Nora Volkow, Director of the National Institute of Drug Abuse, talked about the latest findings. “These are numbers we have never seen before. This is a major challenge to our society. [Some] May not want to take [fentanyl.] But this is what is being sold, and the risk of overdose is very high. Many people die without knowing what they have ingested,” she said.

In addition, overdose deaths related to the use of stimulants such as methamphetamine, cocaine, natural and semi-synthetic opioids (such as prescription pain relievers) have also increased in the past year. 70% of deaths occur among men between the ages of 25 and 54, hitting white Americans the hardest.

As we previously reported in September, in addition to being mixed with heroin, morphine, codeine and other opioids, fentanyl is also often found in cannabis, especially cocaine-which means mortality from overdose It can be directly traced that these drugs contain fentanyl.

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