Growing numbers of US teens dying from Fentanyl overdoses

'The Faces of Fentanyl' wall, at the US Drug Enforcement Administration HQ, displays photos of Americans who died from a fentanyl overdose Source: Getty / AGNES BUN/AFP via Getty Images
More than 100,000 Americans died of drugs overdoses last year – a record number of people as the opioid epidemic worsens. Not so long ago it could be said to be a hidden epidemic - but now everyone knows about the damage being done by opioids... and yet It’s still happening. A growing number of those poisoned by the synthetic opiate, fentanyl are teenagers.
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