Fentanyl Overdose Deaths Are Now Falling Sharply, and You’ll Never Guess Why

Photo caption: Comparison of lethal doses of heroin, carfentanil, and fentanyl. Photo credit: DEA via Flickr. Public domain. Article by Victor Tangermann. Futurism – January 9, 2026. Research article: Science.

For many years, the United States has waged a bitter battle against fentanyl. The staggering number of overdose deaths caused by the drug has been used by Donald Trump’s administration to justify attacking boats in the Caribbean, deploy militarized forces to detain legal citizens, and impose sweeping tariffs — despite having little data to prove that its target countries, including Canada, were actually to blame. The president went as far as to sign an executive order calling the highly addictive and extremely potent synthetic opiate a “weapon of mass destruction.” Yet the latest research shows something inconvenient for that narrative: […]

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