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Jul 14 2017, 10:00am
Drug overdoses are now officially the leading cause of death in Americans under 50, according to a report compiled by the New York Times last month. The data suggests that overdose deaths likely exceeded 59,000 last year, the largest annual jump ever recorded in the United States. Many of those deaths were due to the synthetic opioid fentanyl, which is 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine.
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