Teens buying fentanyl on social media, and sales are soaring!

I know crazy-high statistics seem to accompany everything today from gas prices to the inflation of a host of other commodities. At this point, we can get numb to them. However, the statistics that are lately piercing the hearts of my wife, Gena, and I are the fentanyl overdoses among young adults and adolescents.

Once upon a time, it seemed that illegal drug usage and addiction couldn't get any worse than with the synthetic stimulant crystal methamphetamine (meth) or especially heroin, an opioid made from morphine. Then stepped in another synthetic opioid, fentanyl, which is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine!

ABC News reported, "According to the DEA, the number of forensic drug reports testing positive for fentanyl has skyrocketed in recent years from under 20,000 in 2015 to 117,045 in 2020. A recent study from the National Institutes of Health found that the number of individual fentanyl pills seized by law enforcement increased nearly 50-fold from the first quarter of 2018 to the last quarter of 2021."

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