The AP (10/25, Stobbe) reports fentanyl “is driving drug overdose deaths in the U.S. overall, but in nearly half of the country,” methamphetamine “is the bigger killer,” according to a new CDC report. The report “is the agency’s first geographic breakdown of deaths by drug,” which is “based on 2017 figures when there were more than 70,000 overdose deaths in the U.S., two-thirds of them involving opioids.” Methamphetamine “was No. 4 nationwide, cited in 13% of overdose deaths,” but “in the four western regions, it was No. 1, at 21% to 38%.”
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— “Meth is most common drug in overdose deaths in chunk of US, “Mike Stobbe, AP, October 25, 2019