Is Fentanyl use really a problem? • Sacramento Drug Rehab

The number of deaths from fentanyl overdoses has jumped by more than 2100% in California in five years. The most recent estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), show that overdoses of synthetic opioids (mostly fentanyl) killed nearly 4,000 residents in California last year.
Drug deaths in San Francisco are averaging about two a day. Fentanyl has flooded the illicit drug market.
Many overdoses occurred from illegal drugs purchased that had added fentanyl. The buyers had no awareness that fentanyl had been added. Illegal drugs are not tested for purity.
The CDC has predicted there will be record breaking amount of drug overdoses as the number continues to rise.
Although the opioid epidemic seemed to slow in 2019, the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 caused a ripple effect of death from the disease, and an increase in addiction.
Drug overdoses rose across the country during the coronavirus pandemic. But in San Francisco, overdoses skyrocketed. In 2020, drug overdoses claimed 713 lives.
This was more than double the 257 San Francisco residents who died of the COVID-19 virus in 2020.