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More Americans than ever are dying from fentanyl overdoses as the fourth wave of the opioid epidemic crashes through every community, in every corner of the country.
In 2010 , less than 40,000 people died from a drug overdose across the country, and less than 10% of those deaths were tied to fentanyl.
In 2018 , 80% of fentanyl-related deaths happened east of the Mississippi river , UCLA researchers say.
Fentanyl -laced street drugs have led to people unknowingly using the deadly, synthetic opioid.
"It has been infiltrated in the black community now, and not enough people are talking about it," Ms Watts-Pearson said.
The lethal use of fentanyl in combination with other drugs has marked the " fourth wave" of the overdose crisis in the US , researchers have said.
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