the number of people dying of Fentanyl overdose has gone down, and some think that having narcan available is one of the reasons. It also might be because, like the use of LSD and hallucinogens in the 1970s, people saw the harm being done to those who took them, and just said no.
But the UK Mail says: Uh, maybe it's because all the hard core addicts died.
Dr Caleb Banta-Green, an addiction expert at the University of Washington, says King County, which includes Seattle, is like a microcosm for the rest of the country. Deaths from fentanyl there plummeted nearly 10 percent at the end of 2023 compared to the last quarter - but Dr Banta-Green believes the outbreak is 'self-extinguishing'.
... Latest data shows that in the 12 months to April 2024, the US saw 65,787 deaths from synthetic opioid overdoses, mainly fentanyl - down from a peak of 77,693 in June 2023.
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