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US Customs and Border Protection officers in Arizona said they recently made the single-largest bust of fentanyl in the agency’s history after seizing 4 million pills from a 20-year-old man.
The opioid epidemic affects women and men differently. [28] For instance, women are more likely than men to report recent and non-recent prescription opioid use. [29] Women are also more likely to have chronic pain than men are. [30] In cases of domestic abuse and rape, women are prescribed pain medicine more than men. [30]
A two milligram dose of fentanyl powder (on pencil tip) is a lethal amount for most people. [1] Drug overdose and intoxication are significant causes of accidental death and can also be used as a form of suicide. Death can occur from overdosing on a single or multiple drugs, or from combined drug intoxication (CDI) due to poly drug use.
Women are at a higher risk of overdosing on heroin than men. [100] Overall, opioids are among the biggest killers of every race. [101] Heroin use has been increasing over the years. An estimated 374,000 Americans used heroin in 2002–2005, and this estimate grew to nearly double where 607,000 of Americans had used heroin in 2009–2011. [102]
Of the 213 fatalities due to all drugs last year, a record 138 were caused by fentanyl. The total number of deaths last year was a 21% increase over 2022, while fentanyl deaths increased by 8%.
Fentanyl became more prevalent here in 2020 with fake pills made by drug traffickers to look like oxycodone, Xanax and other prescription drugs. The county’s 60 fentanyl overdose deaths in 2020 ...
On 19 January 2018, the Los Angeles County Department of Medical Examiner said that musician Tom Petty's 2017 death was an accidental drug overdose as a result of mixing medications that included fentanyl, acetyl fentanyl, and despropionyl fentanyl (among others). He was reportedly treating "many serious ailments" that included a broken hip.
Aug. 18—Two Arizona men face federal charges in Alaska accusing them of transporting large amounts of the illegal and highly potent drug fentanyl into the state by way of flights into Ted ...