The numbers are horrifying, but drug overdose death statistics can't fully convey the crisis ravaging America, so DailyMail.com has documented the suffering in some of the worst-affected communities.
There were 107,622 deaths from drug overdoses in the US in 2021, an increase of nearly 15 percent from the year prior, and shocking national trends show few signs of the crisis abating.
Just two milligrams of fentanyl - the amount that fits on the top of a pencil tip - is deadly. Despite successful nationwide stings to bust dealers, authorities admit there's no end in sight for the epidemic.
The animal sedative Xylazine - known as 'tranq' - is now exacerbating the crisis. It's often combined with fentanyl and its horrific effects cause visceral 'flesh-eating' abscesses and addicts to zonk out as they lose feeling in their muscles.
These harrowing pictures lay bare the devastation across the country - as 'zombied' fentanyl and tranq users collapse on needle-littered streets stretching from Washington to Massachusetts, Louisiana to Philadelphia.
Washington was ranked third worst in the US for illicit drug use disorder - narrowly beaten by Oregon - and the grip that narcotics like fentanyl have on the addict population in the state seems to be spiraling out of control.
Drug-related deaths in 2021 surpassed 2,000 - a staggering 66 percent increase for Washington compared to two years prior.
The dire situation means that authorities in Seattle have had to warn that people using drugs should assume that 'any drugs bought on the street, online, or from a friend has fentanyl'.
Photos taken by DailyMail.com in the Democrat-led city show struggling individuals bent over and injecting themselves near homeless tent camps and dingy underpasses.
2 comments:
Wowzers! Those pictures were horrifying! They were actually heartbreaking at the depths of the depravity and lossness coming from our sin choices. This gives new visual meaning that the enemy of our soul comes, to kill, steal and destroy.
Ain't that the truth WV! That was humbling....just looking at those brothers and sisters throwing their lives away, and probably beyond their own ability to pull themselves back from the abyss. If only they knew Jesus.
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