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The Rise of the Fentanyl Drug Epidemic
This is a really different drug epidemic because usually they're demand driven, like if people want cocaine, we see more cocaine. But those are plant derived drugs, right? And so fentanyl is made in a lab, and it kind of changed the whole game because even though it's an opioid like heroin, it's 50 times stronger than heroin. So on the supply side it's just a lot cheaper and quicker to make, and that's why America's being flooded with fentanyl.