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Fentanyl is still a crisis, and securing the border is not enough
Recent headlines offer a glimmer of hope in our country’s unrelenting overdose crisis.  Overdose deaths in the U.S. — which more than doubled over the last decade — made a decisive downturn in 2023. The 10 percent annual reduction in overdose deaths is especially pronounced in the Northeast and Midwest, where hurricane fentanyl first made landfall in the mid-2010s. But overdose deaths are continuing to rise in western states and among specific demographic groups, such as people over age 65. The magnitude of the U.S. overdose crisis is almost impossible to fathom. It has claimed the lives of 1.3 million Americans since 1999, a number that exceeds our country’s losses in all foreign w

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