post found that ten places in the united states with the highest number of fatal ov overdoses caused by the synthetic opioid. two major cities, baltimore and st. louis. but in west virginia, it ranks number one for the highest number of fatal fentanyl overdoses in the nation. a place the post says has very long waiting lists for treatment. listen to these numbers. in 2017, the year president trump took office, a record 28,869 people died from sympathetic opioids. that number is up 46.4% from 2016. and in the first two months of 2018, the most recent estimates show 20,567 americans died. that death toll is now on track to exceed the previous year. most of these deaths were, indeed from fentanyl, a drug that is 50 times more powerful