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Drug overdose deaths hit record levels last year with more than 81,000 fatalities, according to the CDC.
Fentanyl, involved in most of the deaths, is now sweeping the western US with a 98% rise in 10 states.
The synthetic opioid is 100 times more potent than morphine and 50 times more than heroin.
US drug overdose deaths hit record levels last year with more than 81,000 fatalities, according to the CDC. Fentanyl was involved in almost all of them and the dangerous drug is now sweeping the western states, agitated by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) told Insider: Fentanyl has been found mixed with many other drugs. People who buy drugs such as heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, and MDMA are frequently not aware that these may be laced with fentanyl.
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He was caught assaulting police officer Mike Fanone on the bodycam he was wearing.
Although initially denying he stole the badge, he later retrieved it and handed it over to the FBI.
A man charged with assaulting a cop during the Capitol riot has admitted that he buried the officer s police badge in his backyard.
Thomas Siddick of Buffalo, New York, was arrested on Friday on five different charges including assaulting, resisting or impeding officers and taking a thing of value by force and violence or intimidation.
Sibick was caught assaulting Officer Mike Fanone of Washington DC s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) on video captured by the bodycam he was wearing, according to the criminal complaint.