Michael Chapman reports,
A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) shows that the number of fatal overdose deaths among teenagers rose from 492 in 2019 to 954 in 2020, an increase of 94%.
"Teenagers don't seek out illicit opioids, [but] they do seek out prescription opioids and that has always been one of their favorite drugs: Vicodin, OxyContin, hydrocodone. And they also seek out benzodiazepines," Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug abuse, told NPR.
According to Families Against Fentanyl (FAF), illicit fentanyl is now the No. 1 cause of death among Americans ages 18-45.
Much of the illicit fentanyl that ends up in the U.S. is made in Communist China and Mexico. It is smuggled across the borders or mailed through the U.S. postal system.
Read more here: https://cnsnews.com/blog/michael-w-chapman/report-fatal-drug-overdoses-among-teens-94
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