More than 80% of drug users in New York take fentanyl, but only 18% in a way that is not used to.... Manufactured in a lab, at lower costs than heroin, fentanyl has been flooding the U.S.
drug market for years. It has caused about 70,000 overdose deaths in 2022 out of a record 106,000 in the United States. New York has seen the number of fatal overdoses skyrocket in recent years, from 942 in 2015 to 2668 in 2021.