The Frightening Truth About Youth Suicidality and Fentanyl by Michelle P. Maidenberg Ph.D., MPH, LCSW-R, CGP SOURCE: Psychology Today

"According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), drug overdose deaths in the United States increased 28.5 percent between April 2020 and April 2021. In a 12-month period, ending in January 2022, 107,375 people in the United States died of drug overdoses/poisonings; 67 percent of these deaths involved synthetic opioids like fentanyl."