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Drug overdose deaths plummet to pre-pandemic levels during fentanyl crisis

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Drug overdose deaths plummet to pre-pandemic levels during fentanyl crisis.

Number of Americans who died from overdoses of drugs like fentanyl and meth dropped nearly 30% last year .

Experts attribute decrease to wider availability of naloxone, $50 billion in funding from national opioid settlements.

Fentanyl is far more potent than natural opiates like heroin or morphine.