But federal policies to slow the opioid crisis could be supporting the market demand for fentanyl in the first place, according to public health experts.
The Drug Enforcement Administration on Monday warned that Mexican drug cartels are manufacturing"mass quantities" of pills designed to look like prescription painkillers.
Jeremiah Goulka, a researcher and senior fellow at the Health in Justice Action Lab at the Northeastern University School of Law, has an explanation for this"perpetual motion machine." Opioid misuse increased, he said, because people discovered that they could crush and snort the pills. Eventually, pharmaceutical companies changed the formulation, and the DEA began to suppress access to the painkillers by ramping up drug monitoring programs, among other things.
In 2017 alone, more than 47,000 Americans died as a result of an opioid overdose due to prescription opioids, heroin and illicitly manufactured fentanyl, according to the National Institute on Drug Abuse. An estimated 4 to 6 percent of those who misuse prescription opioids later transition to heroin.
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