The legal drug that killed Prince was 50 times stronger than heroin - and overdose deaths are creating an 'unprecedented' epidemic
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Although the deadly drug is legal with a doctor's prescription, it's also being made illegally in underground labs and traded across the US.
A new CDC report, released August 25, found that from 2013-2014:
- Incidents of law enforcement officers finding drugs containing fentanyl jumped 426%.
- Deaths from synthetic opioids like fentanyl rose by 79%.
"In contrast to the 2005-2007 fentanyl overdose outbreak, when deaths were confined to several states, the current epidemic is unprecedented in scope," the report states.
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