Opioids, especially illegal fentanyl, continued to drive deaths, as they have for years, although cocaine and methamphetamine deaths also rose. Nora Volkow, head of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, said that fentanyl has so infiltrated the drug supply that 70 percent of cocaine overdose deaths and 50 percent of methamphetamine overdose deaths also involve the powerful painkiller.
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