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Primary Content Caption The recent cases of fentanyl-related harm, overdose, and death in the U.S. are linked not to prescription drugs but to illegally made fentanyl. Credit: DEA Georgia’s Department of Public Health has issued a warning about a cluster of overdoses from counterfeit pills that contain fentanyl, a potent opioid drug. Roughly 100 cases are suspected in the Augusta area, according to Public Health officials. But there also have been cases reported in the Savannah area and northwest Georgia, as well as a few in metro Atlanta. The sellers of the pills may have claimed they were Xanax, a drug used to treat anxiety and panic disorders, or the painkiller Percocet, according to a Monday alert from state epidemiologist Cherie Drenzek to community leaders. ....
Southern states have higher rates of unreported COVID-19-related deaths than other regions of the country, according to a new study. The study, led by Andrew Stokes, a professor of global health at Boston University School of Public Health, analyzed deaths in 787 U.S. counties that had more than 20 COVID-19 fatalities from Feb. 1 to Oct. 17, 2020. Georgia accounted for more than 50 of the counties studied. (Georgia has a high number of counties second most among the states.) In the new study, the term “excess deaths’’ compares fatalities to recent population benchmarks. Excess deaths can include both those that are directly attributed to COVID-19, and those without that direct link but either indirectly related to the pandemic or misclassified as other causes. ....