Growing numbers of US teens dying from Fentanyl overdoses

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.

'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