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50X
Fentanyl is up to 50 times stronger than heroin.
Source CDC
70%
In 2020, 70% of drug deaths in people ages 14-23 involved fentanyl.
Source CDC
84%
Drug overdose deaths in people ages 10-19 more than doubled from 2019 to 2021, with 84% of these deaths involving illicit fentanyl.
100X
Fentanyl is 100 times more potent than Morphine
1,029
2021, 574 New Mexicans died from an overdose involving fentanyl, and 488 New Mexicans died from an overdose involving methamphetamines.
69%
Drug Overdose deaths in NM in 2021 involved an opioid (prescription opioid)
25%
involved non-fentanyl prescription opioids
9.25x
In 2021 in New Mexico, the fentanyl-involved death rate was higher in 2017
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