When opioids first started killing Americans in very large numbers, it was disproportionately white people, often in rural areas, who were the victims. Cities and ethnic minorities generally suffered lightly. Yet a far worse wave of death is under way now, caused almost entirely by fentanyl, an incredibly powerful synthetic opioid that can be used legally as a painkiller, but is mostly produced by Mexican cartels and smuggled into America. In America exactly 2,000 people have been killed by opioid overdoses in Cook County last year, accounting for close to one in 20 of all deaths. Do you think that the American government has ignored the use and effects of Fentanyl?
