Opioid-involved overdose deaths with fentanyl or fentanyl analogs detected - 28 states and the District of Columbia, July 2016-December 2018 - O'Donnell J, Gladden RM, Goldberger BA, Mattson CL, Kariisa M.

Approximately two thirds of the 70,237 U.S. drug overdose deaths reported in 2017 involved opioids (1). Since 2013, opioid-involved overdose deaths involving illicitly manufactured fentanyl has sharply increased (1,2). Fentanyl analogs are structurally...
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