Overdose deaths from synthetic opioids are skyrocketing across Illinois, increasing by 600 percent over the last year in one county. The steep increase in overdoses in the state is being driven by fentanyl and its analogs, or synthetic replications of fentanyl. The substance is roughly 50 to 100 times more powerful than morphine and is largely…
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