The 'horrific' reason fentanyl deaths are going down READ MORE: 300 Americans are dying per DAY from drug overdoses By Emily Joshu Health Reporter For Dailymail.Com Published: 13:01 EDT, 1 October 2024 | Updated: 13:05 EDT, 1 October 2024 e-mail 8 View comments Deaths from fentanyl appear to be going down for the first time in a decade after reaching astronomic level - but experts warn it's for 'horrific' reasons. They say the drug is simply running out of people to kill, after claiming the lives of over 100,000 Americans in the last decade.
Drug overdoses killed about 107,000 Americans in the past year, down from a peak of 77,693 last summer. In King County, which includes Seattle, a microcosm for the rest of the country, deaths plummeted nearly 10 percent at the end of 2023 compared to the last quarter. But Dr Caleb Banta-Green, an addiction expert at the University of Washington, said it could be because so many users are already dead.
Seattle, Washington, has been dubbed a hub for synthetic drugs like fentanyl. Experts warned that while deaths are decreasing in the area, it may be for the wrong reasons (pictured is a man smoking fentanyl in Seattle in 2022) The above graph shows the number of Americans dying from synthetic drug overdoses every week. These are deaths from fentanyl.
After years of increases, deaths nationwide have finally plateaued Your browser does not support iframes. He told local news station KUOW : 'There are only so many people who are using a drug, a.
