Fentanyl becomes ‘leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 45’ with more fatalities than COVID, cancer & suicide

FENTANYL has become the ‘leading cause of death for Americans aged 18 to 45’ with more fatalities than Covid, cancer and suicide.

There have been a string of recent drug-related celebrity deaths involving the killer narcotic leading experts to believe that street-bought meds like Adderall and Xanax may be laced with Fentanyl.

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Actor Michael K Williams died from an apparent overdose in September, while cocaine tainted with fentanyl is believed to have killed comics Fuquan Johnson, Enrico Colangeli, and a third pal in .

Flash star Logan Williams passed away in April from a deadly suspected fentanyl overdose, also claiming the lives of stars Prince and Tom Petty. 

KILLER NARCOTIC  

Fentanyl is believed to be 50 times more powerful than heroin and manufacturers press the drug into pills to make them look legitimate, tricking unsuspecting victims.

In September, at least eight people in Long Island’s North Fork had overdosed on a tainted batch of the drug, leaving six dead who ranged in age from 27 to 40.

After the overdose epidemic tragically claimed a record 93,331 lives in 2020, a 30 percent increase since 2019, Gina Castrianni Outreach Coordinator at Dynamic Youth Community, Inc. (DYC) an addiction treatment center in , urged Americans to be vigilant.

She noted that 60 percent of the fatal overdoses last year involved synthetic opioids and were mostly caused by the frightening increase in fentanyl-laced drugs in the .

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"We've been hearing for so long that fentanyl is being laced into all different types of substances, not even just fentanyl being in opioids," Castrianni told The Sun.

"We're finding that fentanyl is being laced in Xanax... cocaine, methamphetamines, Adderall."

Castrianni noted that the issue has escalated in recent years.

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"The problem with fentanyl being on the street is it's incredibly more potent than even heroin - it's 30 to 50 times more potent," she explained.

"So only a little tiny bit in the supply is enough to cause death because, even if you already have a high tolerance to heroin [or other drugs], you may not have a high tolerance to fentanyl."

She said fentanyl started being used to cut the heroin around 2013 because it was cheaper, ensuring drug dealers got "more bang from their buck."

"It's been increasing exponentially every year and it's a big reason why we're seeing more overdoses," Simmons told The Sun. "Fentanyl is in most of the drug supply now, over 60 percent. In places like New York, it's even higher."

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