Press Play with Madeleine Brand
The opioid death toll, and why fentanyl has become the drug of choice for Mexican drug cartels
New estimates from the CDC show another increase in overdose deaths last year -- to a record 72,000. That’s a lot more than the number of deaths from guns, car crashes, or even AIDS at its peak.
By Madeleine Brand • • 1 min readNew estimates from the CDC show another increase in overdose deaths last year -- to a record 72,000. That’s a lot more than the number of deaths from guns, car crashes, or even AIDS at its peak. A lot of those deaths can be blamed on fentanyl, the synthetic opioid.
