What is fentanyl and why is it behind the deadly surge in U.S. drug overdoses?

Tragic

Is the opioid crisis in the States connected to the lack of social healthcare?

It must be,right?

That’s obviously more a mental crisis. Some are crazy enough to produce and sell it and some are crazy enough to want and buy it. They have always the big mouth over there, so how about just only standing some smaller pains and buying normal painkillers if and only when in real need? Unbelievable, how they are accelerating to ruin themselves and society with that illegal or grey zone synthetic bs which is good for nothing.

Is the opioid crisis in the States connected to the lack of social healthcare?

No. It's a culture that celebrates drug use - legal and illegal. Leaving aside the street drugs, just turn on the TV to see how the commercials are dominated by ads for drugs. Most people in the US are taking at least one drug regularly - often they have a pill box with an array of drugs. The first answer to every problem is to prescribe a pill. And if it's not prescribed, they can always buy it on the street - but maybe laced with fentanyl.

Gee, a flood of fentanyl and other illegal drugs into the U.S. through an open Southern border...shocking.

Sorry, my sympathies lie with those with real illnesses and diseases not self harmers or those who make poor lifestyle choices like becoming junkies.

Something you will never hear... " (Name of person)'s life really got better after he started taking drugs".

Stop reading articles when the author uses "me, my, or I" half a dozen times in the first couple of paragraphs

Is Marijuana a gateway to hard drugs?