Illicit fentanyl and its analogues continue to flood the street drug supply, driving up the number of fatal overdoses across the region. “In 2014, we had no fentanyl, and now we’ve got over three-fourths of all of our opioid overdoses have fentanyl in it,” DuPage County Coroner Richard Jorgensen said.
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