• Since 2000, more than million people in the United States have died of drug overdoses, the majority of which were due to opioids.

• Fentanyl and other synthetic opioids have been driving the crisis in recent years, with the COVID-19 pandemic exacerbating the public’s abuse of the drug.

• The crisis has also become a major U.S. foreign policy issue, with most supply coming from China and Mexico.

Resource:

Fentanyl and the U.S. Opioid Epidemic | Council on Foreign Relations (cfr.org)