Biden talks fentanyl crisis in Mexico: What experts say should be done to stop overdose deaths

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Biden talks fentanyl crisis in Mexico: What experts say should be done to stop overdose deaths
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Fentanyl is highly addictive, 50 times more potent than heroin, and only a tiny amount – enough to rest on a pencil tip – can be fatal.

Fentanyl is highly addictive, 50 times more potent than heroin, and only a tiny amount – enough to rest on a pencil tip – can be fatal.

"So there's just this huge unmet need, and that's an uncontroversial point of failure of our drug policy," he said. Many non-opioid drugs including marijuana and cocaine can contain fentanyl, unbeknownst to people who use it. in synthetic opioid deaths, with mortality rates for Black people more than tripling from 2010-2019, compared to an increase of 58% for non-Hispanic whites.

Besides test strips, a small number of U.S. harm reduction programs have machines called Fourier-transform infrared spectrometers that can test a drug and detect every substance it contains and its concentration.

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