LOS ANGELES, Feb. 15 (Xinhua) — U.S. drug overdose deaths surpassed 109,000 in 2022, and nearly 70 percent of these deaths involved synthetic opioids other than methadone and primarily illegally manufactured fentanyl and fentanyl analogs, according to data released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Thursday.
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