Use of fentanyl, a powerful synthetic opioid that is cheap to produce and is often sold as is or laced in other drugs, has exploded.It has quickly become the deadliest drug in the nation, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration.
Two-thirds of the 107,000 overdose deaths in 2021 were attributed to synthetic opioids like fentanyl, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.Jennifer Catano, 27, has the names of two children tattooed on her wrists, but she hasn't seen the children for several years. They had been sent to live with her mother."My mom doesn't think it's a good idea because she thinks it's gonna hurt the kids because I'm not ready to get rehabilitated," Ms Catano said.
Ms Catano wandered around a subway station near MacArthur Park desperate to sell a bottle of Downy fabric softener and a Coleman camping chair she stole from a nearby store.Lack of housing, mental health resources and drug addiction can form a deadly combination. A 2019 report by the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority found about a quarter of all homeless adults in Los Angeles County had mental illnesses and 14 per cent had a substance use disorder. That analysis only counted people who had a permanent or long-term severe condition.
Taking a broader interpretation of the same data, the Los Angeles Times found about 51 per cent had mental illnesses and 46 per cent had substance use disorders.
The laws in Ma for fentanyl is the same as heroine & If that fentanyl killed there’s NO investigation even with proof. Unless you’re a college athlete? 94% of drug induced deaths are fentanyl related. 1 killer if fentanyl 13-50yrs. Crack pipe distribution misses the mark.
Thanks prohibitionists.
It's made in China and the Mexican cartels take it across Joe 'Mr 10%' Biden's open borders.
Better late than never eh ABC? You didn’t bother to note George Floyd had fatal levels of this drug and others in his system when he was crying that he couldn’t breathe.
Democrat run city and State, you get Democrat problems.
Ahhh don't defend your border, this is what you get amerimutts your children will be next Joe takes a...permissive stance on drugs sadness comes through left hand path
Easily fixed, don't take drugs?
Thank god they r DefundThePolice there, the woke r certain that this will resolve itself abcnews
Terribly tragic and heartbreaking but individuals do have a choice. Escapism is no excuse. Lots of help is out there to guide the vulnerable through their journey.
LA &SF have become scenes of desperation with men and women sprawled on sidewalks, curled up on benches and collapsed in squalid alleys 1000s of homeless stoned n sleeping
No mention how it gets in to the country?
Good let the festering woke hellhole die slowly and painfully
Brought to you by global hegemony and payback for the opium wars.
Brought to you by Dems open borders policy...
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