{"id":23471,"date":"2025-03-07T15:05:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23471"},"modified":"2025-03-07T16:22:54","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T16:22:54","slug":"what-is-fentanyl-your-questions-about-the-opioid-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23471","title":{"rendered":"What Is Fentanyl? Your Questions About the Opioid, Answered"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump suspended tariffs intended to stop fentanyl from entering the United States. Here\u2019s what to know about the opioid.<\/p>\n

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The Trump administration announced on Thursday<\/a> that it would suspend recently imposed tariffs on Mexico and Canada for about a month. The tariffs were intended to thwart the flow of fentanyl into the United States and dampen life-threatening overdoses tied to the drug.<\/p>\n

The news has thrust fentanyl, a drug that\u2019s been at the forefront of the opioid epidemic, into the spotlight and resurfaced questions about its dangers.<\/p>\n

More than 107,000 people died from drug overdoses in 2023, and nearly 70 percent of those deaths were caused by fentanyl and other opioids, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Provisional C.D.C. data through September of last year indicate that deaths caused by fentanyl have been falling for months<\/a>. Yet many people know someone who has died because of fentanyl, said Dr. Daniel Colby, medical director of the emergency medicine department at the University of California, Davis. \u201cAnd I think that\u2019s causing a lot of concern.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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