SAN FRANCISCO—Recent data from the San Francisco Medical Examiners’ Office, released on Oct. 17, showed a rapid increase in fentanyl-related overdoses and deaths. Just in September, three out of four drug-related deaths involved fentanyl.
Scott Silverman, an interventionist and CEO of Confidential Recover, said that’s partly due to fentanyl being camouflaged or mixed with many other drugs, such as oxycodone.
“People are taking it, not knowing what it is, and they are accidentally overdosing,” Silverman told NTD, a sister media of The Epoch Times.
According to the Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA), fentanyl is a powerful synthetic opiate drug that is 50 times stronger than heroin and 100 times stronger than morphine, and it is currently the deadliest drug threat in the nation….