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In the ongoing opioid crisis in the United States, the synthetic opioid known as fentanyl has caused some of the most dangerous addictions. The drug has been cited by many as being responsible for the death rate caused by synthetic opioids, which has increased by 72 percent between 2014 and 2015 according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Fentanyl can not only destroy a person’s life – it can also end it.
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Fentanyl is classified as a synthetic opioid. Opioids, which originally are derived from the poppy plant, initially were prescribed or administered to treat pain, which is why they’re often referred to as pain relievers. A synthetic opioid, however, is made in a lab and is designed to produce the same effects as popular opiates like heroin, morphine, and codeine.
Because opioid addiction and overdoses are becoming more common in the United States (130 people die every day from opioid-related drug overdoses), the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention classifies the crisis as a public health emergency and an epidemic. Many pharmaceutical companies are blamed for this widespread abuse of opioids for prescribing the drug in the late 90s and early 2000s while assuring consumers that the drug wasn’t addictive.