America’s communities weren’t built to handle the opioid crisis. Across the nation, public services, health care providers and civil servants are overwhelmed by the shared burden of addiction.

"Alarmingly, 93 per cent of opioid deaths are caused by powerful synthetic opioids ... It instead pointed out work by groups like the Islamic State that use online outreach and propaganda to direct, ...

Fentanyl and other opioids have fueled the worst drug crisis in U.S. history. In recent years, fatal overdose numbers have become defined by illicit fentanyl, an extremely lethal synthetic opioid ...

The tragic opioid epidemic continues to rage in the U.S. Roughly 76 percent of U.S. drug overdose deaths, more than 70,000 people in 2023, are linked to opioids, including heroin and illicit fentanyl.