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In 2023 fentanyl overdoses ravaged the U.S. and fueled a new culture war fight (www.kuow.org)
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When the history of the fentanyl crisis is written, 2023 may be remembered as the year Americans woke up to an unprecedented threat scouring communities - and a deepening cultural divide over what to do about it.

For the first time in U.S. history, fatal overdoses peaked above 112,000 deaths, with young people and people of color among the hardest hit.

Drug policy experts, and people living with addiction, say the magnitude of this calamity now eclipses every previous drug epidemic, from the 1980s to the prescription opioid crisis of the 2000s.

"We've had an entire community swept away," said Louise Vincent, a harm reduction activist in North Carolina, who says she still sometimes uses street opioids including fentanyl.

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[–] ULS@lemmy.ml 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Let's all just take it, od, and give the world back to non human animals.