http://www.newsweek.com/fentanyl-overdose-deaths-tripled-cdc-1798319

Deaths from fentanyl overdoses have been found to have increased by 279 percent in the U.S. between 2016 and 2021.

The rate of deaths involving fentanyl more than tripled, increasing from 5.7 deaths per 100,000 people in 2016 to 21.6 deaths per 100,000 people in 2021, according to a report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's (CDC) National Center for Health Statistics on May 3. Between 2019 and 2020, the report found that fentanyl-related overdose deaths rose by 55 percent, and by 24.1 percent between 2020 and 2021.