The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) marked May 10 as “National Fentanyl Awareness Day” in order to make more citizens aware of the life-threatening dangers posed by the synthetic opioid.
“Fentanyl is killing Americans at unprecedented rates,” DEA Administrator Anne Milgram said in a May 9 statement. “On this first-ever National Fentanyl Awareness Day, please help save lives by making sure you talk with your friends and family about the dangers of this deadly drug.”
According to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, more than 107,600 people died of drug overdoses in the 12-month period ending in November 2021, 66 percent of which were attributed to synthetic opioids such as fentanyl.
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