2023-02-04
25 分钟This is in conversation from Apple News.
I'm Shemitah Basu.
Today, the fentanyl crisis and how our government failed us.
In Fairfield County, a horrifying discovery.
The call came in just after 4:00 yesterday afternoon.
Neighbors at this downtown LA high rise are still in shock.
The two teenagers died just days AP.
Three women and two men were found.
Dead inside the apartment building.
Seven overdoses in the last month.
This is an example of the dangerous drugs often laced with fentanyl.
Dead from an apparent fentanyl overdose.
Possible fentanyl overdose.
All five died from snorting cocaine that was laced with fentanyl.
Every seven minutes on average, somebody in America dies of a fentanyl overdose.
Nearly 200 people are dying every day.
That's the equivalent of like a Boeing jet crashing and killing everybody on board every single day.
Scott Hyam is an investigative reporter for the Washington Post who has spent years covering the three distinctive waves of the opioid epidemic.
Prescription pain pills, then heroin, and now fentanyl.
He says more people are dying because of this cheap synthetic drug that's 50 times more powerful than heroin.