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60 MINUTES VIDEO – SAVING GRACE –
Sept. 22, 2024 – This week on 60 Minutes, Bill Whitaker reported on fentanyl … Last year, more than 70,000 Americans died from a fentanyl overdose, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s a higher death toll than U.S. military casualties in the wars in Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan combined. Drug cartels in Mexico have flooded the United States with fentanyl, often hiding it in counterfeit pills designed to look like authentic prescription pills, including OxyContin, Percocet, Xanax, and Adderall. And fentanyl is also showing up as an additive in street drugs, like cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine.
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