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The Blood that Gives Me Strength

The steady rise in fentanyl overdoses shows the rise has hardly reached its summit.

The fentanyl ‘pandemic’ has been a steady one documented since 1999 when a counted fatality of 1,749 tripled by 2017. In 2017, 5,269 overdose deaths were attributed to opioid involvement.

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Le Voir N. Lewis

Author of Influential Thoughts: The Power of Daily Affirmations. Writer of food & beverage topics, short form, poetry, fiction, and life.