More adults died of fentanyl overdoses in 2020 than COVID-19, motor vehicle accidents, cancer and suicide. A record
~108,000 people died of drug overdose in 2021, about 2/3rds of which involved fentanyl/synthetic opioid.
There were
2,448 United States military deaths in the War in Afghanistan.
Most fentanyl originates in China and much of it enters the US illegally across the Mexico border.